Charles Baudelaire

Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet who also worked as an essayist, art critic and translator. His poems are described as exhibiting mastery of rhyme and rhythm, containing an exoticism inherited from Romantics, and are based on observations of real life.

Books by Charles Baudelaire

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Les Fleurs du Mal
Charles Baudelaire
4.3 (49k) average on GoodreadsFiction
Baudelaire's 1857 masterpiece, a work of decadent beauty and startling depravity, is now available in its first complete American translation, presented alongside the original French.
Paris Spleen
Charles Baudelaire
4.3 (11k) average on GoodreadsPhilosophy
In 19th-century Paris, Baudelaire examines the city's intoxicating squalor and fleeting beauty, creating a new prose poetry that reflects a restless era.