June 1, 1857 saw the publication of the most important volume of French poetry up till then: Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal… Baudelaire addresses the reader of the volume with this famous bit of mockery: It’s Ennui! — his eye brimming with spontaneous tear He dreams of the gallows in the haze of his hookah. You know him, reader, this delicate monster, Hypocritical reader, my likeness, my brother! Image: Baudelaire’s own annotated 1st ed. copy of Les Fleurs… Click for high-res photo

June 1, 1857 saw the publication of the most important volume of French poetry up till then: Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal…

Baudelaire addresses the reader of the volume with this famous bit of mockery:

It’s Ennui! — his eye brimming with spontaneous tear
He dreams of the gallows in the haze of his hookah.
You know him, reader, this delicate monster,
Hypocritical reader, my likeness, my brother!

Image: Baudelaire’s own annotated 1st ed. copy of Les Fleurs…

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    When I found this, I remembered how much I enjoyed Baudelaire when I studied him last fall. I’m attaching a copy
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    La prima edizione, annotata dall’autore, dei
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