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Charles Baudelaire was a influential French poet and critic of the 19th century who lived from 1821 to 1867. He is remembered as a significant literary figure whose work and ideas helped shape modern poetry and literary criticism.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 9 April 1821
- Died
- 31 August 1867
- Works
- 1255
Top works
- Mirari ; Ustulare ; Movere ; Retinere ; Revelare ; Sublimare ; Unire ; Paradis
- 恶之花选
- Mukhtār al-shiʻr al-Faransī
- Eureka
- Les Fleurs du mal
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,673
- Total plays
- 19,905
Works in European collections
33 objects attributed to Charles Baudelaire, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Article
Charles-Pierre Baudelaire ( UK: /ˈboʊdəlɛər/; US: /ˌboʊd(ə)ˈlɛər/; French: [ʃaʁl(ə) bodlɛʁ] ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet, essayist, translator and art critic. His poems are described as exhibiting mastery of rhythm and rhyme, containing an exoticism inherited from the Romantics, and are based on observations of real life.
His most famous work, a book of lyric poetry titled Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil), expresses the changing nature of beauty in the rapidly industrialising Paris caused by Haussmann's renovation of Paris during the mid-19th century. Baudelaire's original style of prose-poetry influenced a generation of poets including Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé. He coined the term modernity (modernité) to designate the fleeting experience of life in an urban metropolis, and the responsibility of artistic expression to capture that experience. Marshall Berman has credited Baudelaire as being the first Modernist.