On Wine and Hashish

Initially composed for newspaper publication, and inspired by Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an Opium Eater,Baudelaire's musings on wine and hashish provide acute and fascinating psychological insight into the mind of the addict. On Wine and Hashishasserts the ambivalence of memory, urging a union of willpower and sensual pleasure as Baudelaire claims that wine and hashish bring about an escape of narrative time. This characteristic theme anticipates his famous prose poems, "Le Spleen de Paris," in which drunkennessas induced by wine, poetry, or virtueis celebrated in extraordinary style.Baudelaire, Charles is the author of 'On Wine and Hashish' with ISBN 9781843910176 and ISBN 1843910179.