Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a 19th century French poet best known for his work Les Fleurs du mal. In this work, he sought to capture the fleeting nature of beauty and experience in modern, industrial Paris. Some of the principal themes in his poetry included sex, death, melancholy, and the corruption of the city. Baudelaire coined the term "modernity" to describe life in the changing urban environment of his time. He was influenced by Edgar Allan Poe and similarly explored themes of the macabre and supernatural in his writing.
Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a 19th century French poet best known for his work Les Fleurs du mal. In this work, he sought to capture the fleeting nature of beauty and experience in modern, industrial Paris. Some of the principal themes in his poetry included sex, death, melancholy, and the corruption of the city. Baudelaire coined the term "modernity" to describe life in the changing urban environment of his time. He was influenced by Edgar Allan Poe and similarly explored themes of the macabre and supernatural in his writing.
Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a 19th century French poet best known for his work Les Fleurs du mal. In this work, he sought to capture the fleeting nature of beauty and experience in modern, industrial Paris. Some of the principal themes in his poetry included sex, death, melancholy, and the corruption of the city. Baudelaire coined the term "modernity" to describe life in the changing urban environment of his time. He was influenced by Edgar Allan Poe and similarly explored themes of the macabre and supernatural in his writing.
Was a French poet who produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. His most famous work, Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil), expresses the changing nature of beauty in modern, industrializing Paris during the 19th century. He is credited with coining the term "modernity" (modernit) to designate the fleeting, ephemeral experience of life in an urban metropolis, and the responsibility art has to capture that experience.
The principal themes of sex and death were considered scandalous. He also touched on lesbianism, sacred and profane love, metamorphosis, melancholy, the corruption of the city, lost innocence, the oppressiveness of living, and wine. Baudelaire had much in common with Poe (who died in 1849 at age forty). The two poets display a similar sensibility of the macabre and supernatural turn of mind; each struggled with illness, poverty, and melancholy.
Love "There is an invincible taste for prostitution in the heart of man, from which comes his horror of solitude. He wants to be 'two'. The man of genius wants to be 'one'... It is this horror of solitude, the need to lose oneself in the external flesh, that man nobly calls 'the need to love'.
Pleasure "Personally, I think that the unique and supreme delight lies in the certainty of doing 'evil'and men and women know from birth that all pleasure lies in evil. But what matters an eternity of damnation to one who has found an infinity of joy in a single second?
The Public "In this regards, my friend, you're like the public, to whom one should never offer a delicate perfume. It exasperates them. Give them only carefully selected garbage."