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Charles Baudelaire

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Charles-Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet, essayist, art critic, and translator. His poetry joined formal classicism with romantic and modern urban experience, while his prose poems, criticism, and writing on art shaped later symbolism and modernism. His principal works include Les Fleurs du mal, Les Paradis artificiels, and Le Spleen de Paris. He also translated and introduced Edgar Allan Poe to French readers. Baudelaire died in Paris in 1867; several major collections of his criticism, prose poetry, journals, and unfinished writings appeared posthumously.

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Cover of Les Fleurs du mal

Les Fleurs du mal

Baudelaire's central poetry collection and the essential starting point for his themes, form, and influence.

Cover of Le Spleen de Paris

Le Spleen de Paris

A complementary introduction to his innovative prose poetry and modern urban vision.

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Nonfiction (6)
  1. Salon de 1845

    art criticism · 1845

  2. Salon de 1846

    art criticism · 1846

  3. Curiosités esthétiques

    art criticism collection · 1868

  4. L'Art romantique

    literary criticism collection · 1868

  5. Fusées

    journal and fragments · 1887

  6. Mon cœur mis à nu

    journal and memoir · 1887

Essays and speeches (3)
  1. Les Paradis artificiels

    essays · 1860

    L'homme a le goût de l'infini. Il boit ou se drogue pour quitter la terre et atteindre le paradis. Dans le Poème du haschisch, Baudelaire chante les départs exaltants, les visions de lumières, or, sang et pierreries que donnent le vin, le…

  2. Richard Wagner et Tannhäuser à Paris

    essay · 1861

  3. Pauvre Belgique!

    unfinished pamphlet · 1952

Poetry (3)
  1. Les Fleurs du mal

    poetry collection · 1857

    This fully revised and amended edition of Baudelaire's masterpiece of lyric poetry contains all of the poems from all three editions of Les Fleurs du Mal, with both the original French texts and new English verse translations on the…

  2. Les Épaves

    poetry collection · 1866

  3. Le Spleen de Paris

    prose poetry collection · 1869

    Lorsqu'il commence à publier ses petits poèmes en prose dans des revues et des journaux, Baudelaire a beau les qualifier modestement de " bagatelles ", il a pleinement conscience de ce qu'ils ont de singulier. Et nous le savons mieux…