Who is Charles Baudelaire

Charles Pierre Baudelaire (UK: , US: ; French: [ʃaʁl(ə) bodlɛʁ] (listen); 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist and art critic. His poems exhibit mastery in the handling of rhyme and rhythm, contain an exoticism inherited from Romantics, but 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 industrializing Paris during the mid-19th century. Baudelaire's highly original style of prose-poetry influenced a whole generation of poets including Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé, among many others. He is credited with coining the term modernity (modernité) to designate the fleet...
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Charles Baudelaire Poems

• The Alchemy Of Sadness
  One man lights you with his ardour
  one decks you in mourning, Nature!
  What says to the first: 'A Sepulchre!'
  To the other cries: 'Life and splendour!' ...
• The Poison
  Wine can clothe the most sordid hole
  in miraculous luxury,
  and let many a fabulous portico float free
  in the gold of its red glow, ...
• Draft Epilogue For The Second Edition Of Les Fleurs Du Mal
  Tranquil as a sage and gentle as one who's cursed. I said:
  I love you, oh my beauty, my charmer
  
  many a time ...
• Harmony Of Evening
  Now those days arrive when, stem throbbing,
  each flower sheds its fragrance like a censer:
  sounds and scents twine in the evening air:
  languorous dizziness, Melancholy dancing! ...
• The Inquisitive Man's Dream
  Do you know, as I do, delicious sadness
  and make others say of you: 'Strange man!'
  I was dying. In my soul, singular illness,
  desire and horror were mingled as one: ...

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Charles Baudelaire Quotes

• It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.
• A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
• There exist only three beings worthy of respect the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
• There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.
• I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.

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Comments about Charles Baudelaire

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