TY - BOOK AU - Baudelaire,Charles TI - Les Fleurs du Mal AV - PQ PY - 2004/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - French poetry -- 19th century N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Fleurs_du_mal; Release date is 2004-07-01; Produced by Tonya Allen, Julie Barkley, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Les Fleurs du Mal" by Charles Baudelaire is a volume of French poetry first published in 1857. This groundbreaking collection explores themes of decadence, eroticism, suffering, and death through unconventional imagery and forms. Six poems were censored upon release for immorality, sparking prosecution and controversy. The work broke with poetic tradition and became a cornerstone of symbolist and modernist movements. Now recognized as a major achievement in French literature, it profoundly influenced poets including Verlaine, Rimbaud, and Mallarmé. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6099 ER -