Charles Baudelaire
April 9, 1821 –August 31, 1867
Poet, Art critic, Essayist, Translator, Writer, Literary critic
Lived 46 years
- Born in
- former 11th arrondissement of Paris
- Passed away in
- Paris
Charles-Pierre Baudelaire (UK: ; US: ; French: [ʃaʁl(ə) bodlɛʁ] ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet, essayist, translator and art critic. His poems are described as exhibiting mastery of rhythm and rhyme, containing an exoticism inherited from the Romantics, and 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 industrialising Paris caused by Haussmann's renovation of Paris during the mid-19th 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 expression to capture that experience. Marshall Berman has credited Baudelaire as being the first Modernist.
Notable works: Les Fleurs du mal, Les Paradis artificiels, Le Peintre de la vie moderne, Reflections on Some of My Contemporaries, La Fanfarlo, Le Spleen de Paris, The Albatross Awards: Concours général Education: Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Lycée Saint-Louis
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