Selected poems from "Flowers of evil"

I'm a great fan of Baudelaire and his work, and I guess I was doubling up a little when I purchased this book to read, having quite a few works already of his including the squibbed Intimate Journals which reveals some of Baudelaire's more finer observations - However, I have not read in its entirety "Flowers of Evil", I found the selected prose and verse to be ... 'fruitful idleness' which is as dedicated a review I can offer it, and I use that phrase of course because it is one of Baudelaire's phrases and perhaps his most stubborn demon. My favourite pieces, LESBOS and EPIGRAPH FOR A CONDEMNED BOOK, have such rich expressions such as "Throw away this saturnine, Orgiastic and melancholy book".

I enjoyed this read as a taste of further Baudelaire immersions ... aside from Intimate Journals, Paris Spleen and Twenty Prose Poems.