SOURCE: "'High' Poetics: Baudelaire's Le Poeme du hachisch," in MLN, Vol. 109, No. 4, September, 1994, pp. 698-740.
In the following essay, Lyu discusses the tension in Baudelaire's Le Poème du haschisch between the poet's desire to pronounce a distinct separation of poetry and hashish and his ultimate inability to keep them apart.
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