What are your thoughts on him, Veeky Forums?
What are your thoughts on him, Veeky Forums?
Camden Anderson
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Nathaniel Gray
>implying i have thoughts
Jaxon Gomez
I only got about a third of the way through Flowers of Evil before lending my copy to someone and never getting it back but it was pretty great.
Brody Gray
What should you read before starting Baudelaire?
Evan Cruz
Just go for it
Jack Smith
There is no prerequisite but knowing French might help. A better question is who to read after. My recommendation being Huysmanns
Josiah Davis
Okay. What should I do to understand him? I can't help but feel like I should take my time with his stuff. Is there anything he references a lot? Is his work mostly meaningless?
Lincoln Watson
Aestheticism is really based on personal temperament and so his work is very accessible to anyone; I suppose to understand him you could read his essays before his poetry.
Isaiah Lopez
Okay, will do.
William Howard
You look like you just can't comprehend the idea that you don't have to read a shitton of introductory writing to understand something. No, you don't need the essays. Just. Read. The. Flowers. Of. Evil.
For fuck's sake. This reminds me of the "you have to study the western canon before you can eat a burger" post.