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Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 320 - DeQuincy, Baudelaire, and Poe - Part Two
When I started this podcast, my plans are to delve more into Charles Baudelaire, but I ran into something that I did not expect. Oh sure, there was his great collection known as Flowers of Evil and his classic and highly influential translation of Poe’s works. And I began reading a book about the controversial topic of the use of opium by Baudelaire - but I soon found that much of Baudelaire’s interests were centered around a writer known as Thomas De Quincey. Baudelaire’s intended to translate Thomas De Quincey’s Confession of an English Opium Eater. So And in a strange way, I found that reading about Thomas De Quincey helped me understand Baudelaire much better, and gain insights into the personal and creative challenges that Baudelaire faced as someone addicted to an opium.
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