TY - BOOK AU - Baudelaire,Charles AU - Scott,Cyril TI - The Flowers of Evil AV - PQ PY - 2011/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - French poetry -- Translations into English N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Fleurs_du_mal; Release date is 2011-05-13; Produced by Andrea Ball and Marc D'Hooghe (From images generously made available by the Internet Archive); Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Flowers of Evil" by Charles Baudelaire is a volume of French poetry first published in 1857. This groundbreaking collection broke with tradition through suggestive imagery and unusual forms, exploring themes of decadence, eroticism, suffering, and death. Six poems were censored for immorality, and Baudelaire was prosecuted for insulting public decency. Despite—or perhaps because of—its controversy, the work became a cornerstone of the symbolist and modernist movements, profoundly influencing French poetry and earning recognition as a major literary achievement. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36098 ER -