That poet was Charles Baudelaire, author of Les Fleurs du Mal, Critique sur Théophile Gautier, Les Paradis Artificiels, and translations of the works of Edgar A. Poe. Perhaps only to certain ...

Charles Baudelaire took his first breaths 200 years ... Napoleon would cast his strange influence over the poet’s life. His father died when he was six. A kind, elderly ex-priest and Imperial ...

More particularly, you can’t understand what makes Charles Baudelaire a great poet as he digs into the deep stuff of modern life. “Race of Abel, your carrion / Will fat the steaming soil ...

Cats choose, like them, to sit, and like them, shudder. Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) is one of the most important poets in French literature (he also made a name for himself as a literary and ...

Today, I'm reading "La chambre double" by Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) -- technically, in prose, but it belongs to Baudelaire's "Petits Poèmes en prose" ("Little Prose Poems") collection ...

It is a pleasure to speak at the Blue Economy and Finance Forum. In his 1857 poem “Man and the Sea”, Charles Baudelaire ...

the only poet equal parts Robert Frost and Charles Baudelaire, has written some of the strangest, most opalescent poems of the past half-century, many of them collected in his new book ...

A new dual-language translation of Charles Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil offers English readers the best way of appreciating the poet who helped invent modernity. Review of The Flowers of ...

This weekend in Chicago, a small theater troupe with a big resume will present all of the poems in Charles Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du Mal" — sung by more than 50 performers from around the world.

By David Belcher As a teenager, the Chinese artist Tao Siqi was fascinated by the words of Charles Baudelaire, the French poet who was not exactly known for imagery of sweeping landscapes and ...