Baudelaire will always be the first modern man. He was a rebel who believed in art for art’s sake, writes Kevin Childs.His life was scarred by alcoholism, penury and complicated love, but in the ...

Around, let’s say, 1885 the young French poet Jules Laforgue was living in Berlin and scribbling observations in his notebooks. He was reading Charles Baudelaire’s notorious book of poetry ...

As it happens, this period spans Charles Baudelaire’s life as an artist, from the publication of his first poem in Le Corsaire to his death in 1867 at 46. But it is not simply a coincidence of ...

In his text “The Painter of Modern Life,” which appeared in Le Figaro in 1863, Baudelaire propounds that beauty must encompass the absolute and the particular, the eternal and the transitory.

Baudelaire, Rousseau, and the Aesthetics of Modernity, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004, 288 p. Series Name: Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society ISBN: 0-8018-7945-0 Description Charles ...

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 ...

That poet was Charles Baudelaire, ... corrupted phase of modern civilization in France. His poems represent, ... his moral idea, his poetry, ...

Baudelaire’s rich musical heritage is being currently documented by the Baudelaire Song Project.His notion of the “flaneur”, the aimless urban idler, influenced the German philosopher Walter ...

REVIEWED BY LESLIE H. WHITTEN JR. What’s going on here? Why the sudden interest in Charles Baudelaire, a 19th-century French poet? Evidence of this fascination abounds. A 14-year-old kid goes to ...

The Flowers of Evil Charles Baudelaire, translated by Keith Waldrop Wesleyan University Press, $24.95 (cloth) “By ‘modernity’ I mean the. Help Us Stay Paywall-Free. Democracy depends on the free ...