Baudelaire (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Joanna Richardson
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1821-1867
- Setting: Paris, France, and Brussels, Belgium
- Principal Characters: Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, Joseph-François Baudelaire, Caroline Dufays Baudelaire Aupick, Jacques Aupick
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Mothers, Parents and children, Love or romance, Authors or writers, Literature, Poetry or poets, Death or dying, Creative process, Censorship
- Locales: Paris, France, Brussels, Belgium
Charles Baudelaire was a poet of dreams and despair, one of the first to bring a vision of modern, urban humanity to verse. His Les Fleurs du mal (1857; Flowers of Evil, 1931) rocked the French literary world with its combination of aching formal beauty, spiritual exaltation, and utter moral degradation. The publication caused Baudelaire to be prosecuted and found guilty of an “offense against public morals.” He was fined and ordered to excise six “immoral” poems from the collection (a position not legally reversed until 1949). A more important result of the...
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