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| | Poet of the Malign |
 | | That poet was Charles Baudelaire, author of Les Fleurs du Mal, Critique sur Thiophile Gautier, Les Paradis Artificiels, and translations of the works of Edgar A. Poe. |
 | | His poem of Le Voyage, in which irony, contempt, and audacity give the tone to his voice, expresses the sum and substance of life to a man who is entirely outside of Christian sentiment, and yet far from antique cheerfulness. |
 | | Les Paradis Artificiels, which is composed of two parts, ã one a translation of De Quincey's "Confession of an Opium- Eater," the other, his own Confessions of an Hashish-Eater, ãis remarkable for its terse and splendid diction, and thorough analysis of the ideas and sen-sations of a fine mind forced into activity by artificial means. |
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