The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire

If you like T.S. Eliot, then Baudelaire is another poet you should add to your reading list. Baudelaire was a major influence on French writers such as Verlaine, Rimbaud, and Mallarmé. Les Fleurs du Mal, or The Flowers of Evil, is his most famous work, a collection of poetry on the changes that occurred in Paris as a result of industrialization in the nineteenth century.

Baudelaire argued that The Flowers of Evil was more than just a collection of unconnected poems, but rather a well-planned sequence. The trend through his collection is threefold: the longing for ecstasy, the agony of failing to obtain perfection, and ultimately the affirmation of the bitter, limited but deep worth that remains. Throughout his work, he shows the monotony of society in an honest and beautiful manner, making it well worth reading.

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