Charles Pierre Baudelaire
1821 - 1867
one of the greatest French poets of the 19th century
Ch. Baudelaire was born in Paris in 1821. While studying law at the Ecole de Droit he became addicted to opium and hashish. He also contracted syphilis at that time, from which he was to die. He attained his majority in 1842. He lived with Jeanne Duval, a woman who inspired his first cycle of love poems Black Venus regarded as the finest erotic... more »
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Baudelaire, life and works -- biography, early writings to later years, analysis, selected poems translated into English
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Les Fleurs du Mal in English -- translation into English: Spleen and Ideal, Parisian Tableaux, Wine, The Flowers of Sickness and Evil, Revolt, Death
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Baudelaire -- biography, a wide collection of his writings, analysis
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Links to Baudelaire -- a comprehensible site with links related to Baudelaire, analysis, texts, critical writings etc.
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Biography -- Baudelaire's life with photos of people important to him
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Biography -- short biography of Baudelaire and a list of works
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