French poet and critic, central figure in Symbolism and precursor to modernist poetry. Les Fleurs du Mal scandalized Paris with its fusion of beauty, decay, sin, and spiritual aspiration.
The aesthetics of spleen and ideal; the city as infernal sublime; correspondences between sensory experience and spiritual states.
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