CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
Gautier, Théophile / Robinson, Jeremy Mark CHARLES BAUDELAIRE: HIS LIFE
By Théophile Gautier
With poems translated by Guy Thorne
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a celebrated 19th century French poet, author of the famous Flowers of Evil poetic sequence, first published in 1857. Baudelaire is a poet's poet par excellence, a brilliant craftsman who produced some of the finest poems in the French language. Baudelaire was known as a dandy who led a bohemian lifestyle, he knew many o...