SOURCE: "Paradise Regained: The Flaneur, the Badaud, and the Aesthetics of Artistic Reception i Le Poeme du haschisch," in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Vol. 24, No. 3 & 4, Spring-Summer, 1996, pp. 388-97.
In the following essay, Wettlaufer contends that Le Poème du haschisch serves as an outline of Baudelaire's aesthetic philosophy as well as his statement about the tenuous benefits of drug experimentation.
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