Charles
Pierre Baudelaire (April 9, 1821 – August 31, 1867) was a French poet who also
produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of
Edgar Allan Poe. Queer Places:
Montparnasse Cemetery, 3 Boulevard Edgar Quinet, 75014 Paris, France
Charles
Pierre Baudelaire (April 9, 1821 – August 31, 1867) was a French poet who also
produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of
Edgar Allan Poe.
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 modern, and rapidly industrializing Paris during the mid-19th century. Baudelaire's highly original style of prose-poetry influenced a whole generation of poets including Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé, among many others. He is credited with coining the term "modernity" (modernité) to designate the fleeting, ephemeral experience of life in an urban metropolis, and the responsibility of artistic expression to capture that experience.[2]
The principal themes of sex and death were considered scandalous for the period. He also touched on lesbianism, sacred and profane love, metamorphosis, melancholy, the corruption of the city, lost innocence, the oppressiveness of living, and wine. Notable in some poems is Baudelaire's use of imagery of the sense of smell and of fragrances, which is used to evoke feelings of nostalgia and past intimacy.[21]
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