Baudelaire, Charles
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...of his poems published in his lifetime, Les Fleurs du mal (1857, enlarged 1861, 1868; several Eng. tr., The Flowers of Evil ), was publicly condemned as obscene, and six of the poems were suppressed. Later recognized as a masterpiece...