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Author Information: Charles Baudelaire

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Charles Pierre Baudelaire. 1821 - 1867

French symbolist poet. Friend of Delacroix, Manet, and Daumier.

His masterpiece is a collection of poems, Les Fleurs du mal [Flowers of Evil] (1857), for which author, printer, and publisher were prosecuted for impropriety in 1864. These poems had a major influence on modern poetry.

Collections:

Flowers of Evil (1957)

Anthologies:

Book of Cats, the (1976)
100 Best Love Poems of All Time, the (2003)

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Biography :: at Academy of American Poets site
Text of Be Drunk :: tr by Louis Simpson
Text of Spleen :: tr by Robert Lowell
Text of Spleen :: tr by Richard Howard
Text of The Fountain of Blood :: tr by Rachael Hadas
Text of Voyage to Cythera :: tr by Rachel Hadas