The Poem of Hashish
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ISBN10: 1161473599
ISBN13: 9781161473599
Publisher: Kessinger Pub Llc
Published: May 23 2010
Pages: 36
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.25 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781161473599
Publisher: Kessinger Pub Llc
Published: May 23 2010
Pages: 36
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.25 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
The Poem of Hashish is a collection of essays and poems written by the French poet Charles Baudelaire. The book explores Baudelaire's experiences with hashish, a drug derived from the cannabis plant, and its effects on his perception of reality and creativity. The essays delve into the history and cultural significance of hashish, while the poems capture the intense and hallucinatory experiences Baudelaire had while under its influence. The book is considered a classic of French literature and a landmark work on the subject of drug-induced creativity. It offers a unique insight into the mind of one of the most celebrated poets of the 19th century and his fascination with altered states of consciousness.In the intoxication of hashish there is nothing like this. We shall not go outside the class of natural dream. The drunkenness, throughout its duration, it is true, will be nothing but an immense dream, thanks to the intensity of its colours and the rapidity of its conceptions. But it will always keep the idiosyncrasy of the individual. The man has desired to dream; the dream will govern the man. But this dream will be truly the son of its father. The idle man has taxed his ingenuity to introduce artificially the supernatural into his life and into his thought; but, after all, and despite the accidental energy of his experiences, he is nothing but the same man magnified, the same number raised to a very high power.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
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