<p>"Shortly we will plunge within the frigid gloom, / Farewell swift summer brightness; all too short..." Composed over a period of twenty years, these poems of love, lust, beauty, death, and suffering revolutionized modern poetry. Censored for decades for its descriptions of erotic and disturbing scenes, <i>The Flowers of Evil</i> remains one of Charles Baudelaire's most celebrated literary works.</p>
