In a small garret room on the Isle Saint Louis in Paris, Charles ... current in his own time, still relevant? Because he was and always will be the first modern man. For Baudelaire, modernity ...

He was reading Charles Baudelaire’s notorious ... investigation I kept being haunted by this idea of Baudelaire’s modernity, the problem of his uniqueness. And it was prompted, I think ...

So wrote Gustave Flaubert about his novel Sentimental Education, which concerns the years 1840-67. As it happens, this period spans Charles ... wherein modernity was assembled, Baudelaire its ...

Charles Baudelaire is usually read as a paradigmatically modern poet, whose work ushered in a new era of French literature. But the common emphasis on his use of new forms and ... Not only do Rousseau ...

In his text “The Painter of Modern ... an idea which reinforced the neo-Platonic sublime ideals of Romanticism. Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Verlaine, and Rimbaud openly sang Baudelaire’s praises ...

A new dual-language translation of Charles Baudelaire ... the evil and banality of modern life. Baudelaire was born in 1821 to a prosperous family in Paris. His father died when he was just ...

Why the sudden interest in Charles ... drags his great wings there while vicious and stupid sailors torment him. Baudelaire’s numerous biographers and critics have called him “a modern Dante ...

More particularly, you can’t understand what makes Charles Baudelaire a great poet as he digs into the deep stuff of modern life ... is Baudelaire proclaiming his membership in the devil ...

In fact, the French poet Charles Baudelaire ... is his recognition in Les Fleurs du Mal, his prose poetry, and essays, that the urbanised, industrial and increasingly godless modern world is ...

That poet was Charles ... is his name known outside of France. They may recollect reading of him in connection with ideas that belong to the very revolt and pride of human nature. Baudelaire ...