Letters to a Poet

"Extravagantly influential literary pieces that have not been scratched by dictionaries or affected by time." In July 1846, Flaubert, who was only twenty-five years old, met the famous poet Louise Colet in the workshop of a mutual friend. From that time on, Cupid threw arrows of love into the heart of Flaubert, who chose Louise, who was eleven years older than him, as his lover and muse, to the point that he said of her: "He has never loved and will never love a woman as he loved her." The ...