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First published in , this penetrating, immensely readable biography of the brilliant poet, translator, and art critic, F. W. J. Hemmings gives us a..

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First published in , this penetrating, immensely readable biography of the brilliant poet, translator, and art critic, F. W. J. Hemmings gives us a.

Baudelaire was born in Paris in , a contempory of Hugo, Gautier and Lamartine, the author of Les Fleurs du Mal would come to be recognized as one of the.

It is a full biography of the French poet Charles Baudelaire (), which was a best-seller and very well received by critics.

Charles Baudelaire

French poet and critic (–)

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Charles Pierre Baudelaire (, ;^[1]French:[ʃaʁl(ə)bodlɛʁ]^ⓘ; 9 April – 31 August ) was a French poet, essayist, translator and art critic.

His poems are described as exhibiting mastery of rhyme and rhythm, containing an exoticism inherited from the Romantics, and are based on observations of real life.^[2]

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 midth 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 ex