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    A Study Guide for Charles Baudelaire's "Hymn to Beauty"
    A Study Guide for Charles Baudelaire's "Hymn to Beauty"
    A Study Guide for Charles Baudelaire's "Hymn to Beauty"
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    A Study Guide for Charles Baudelaire's "Hymn to Beauty"

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    A Study Guide for Charles Baudelaire's "Hymn to Beauty," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 26, 2016
    ISBN9781535825252
    A Study Guide for Charles Baudelaire's "Hymn to Beauty"

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      A Study Guide for Charles Baudelaire's "Hymn to Beauty" - Gale

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      Hymn to Beauty

      Charles Baudelaire

      1857

      Introduction

      Hymn to Beauty comes from the Spleen and Ideal section of Charles Baudelaire's book Les Fleurs du Mal (which translates into English as Flowers of Evil or Flowers of Suffering). First published in 1857, it has become one of the most widely read and influential collections of poetry ever to come out of France. Like Edgar Allan Poe, whose works Baudelaire was instrumental in introducing to French audiences through extensive translations and critical works, Baudelaire viewed the universe with acute sensuality that leaned toward a fascination with the supernatural and the macabre. At the same time, his own aesthetic theories led him to the conclusion that beauty, mysterious and unknowable as it was, was the artist's main concern. Baudelaire is considered to be a precursor to the French symbolist movement that developed decades later, at the end of the nineteenth century, and included Stéphane Mallarmé, Arthur Rimbaud, and Paul Verlaine. Most modern and postmodern poetry was influenced in one way or another by

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