loading . . . Death, Desire, and the City: Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil - Brook Farm Institute for Critical Studies Often described as the quintessential poetry collection of modernity, Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) remains an intriguing, even shocking record of the new subjective experience of life in the modern metropolis, a world of fractured beliefs and unstable grand narratives. Baudelaire’s poetic persona descends into the streets and looks head-on into the … <p class="link-more"><a href="https://brookfarminstitute.com/seminars/baudelaire-writer-of-modern-life/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Death, Desire, and the City: Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil"</span></a></p> https://brookfarminstitute.com/seminars/baudelaire-writer-of-modern-life/