Charles Baudelaire Quotes


For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.


Citations

Baudelaire, Charles. Baudelaire as a Literary Critic. Translated by Lois Boe Hyslop and Francis E. Hyslop, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1964, p. 53.

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Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
  • Born: April 9, 1821
  • Died: August 31, 1867
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Poet, Art Critic, Philosopher

Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and one of the first translators of Edgar Allan Poe. His poems exhibit mastery in the handling of rhyme and rhythm, contain an exoticism inherited from Romantics, but are based on observations of real life.