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Charles Baudelaire

Born

in Paris, France

April 09, 1821

Died

August 31, 1867

Genre

Poetry, Fiction

Influences

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Public condemned Les fleurs du mal (1857), obscene only volume of French writer, translator, and critic Charles Pierre Baudelaire; expanded in 1861, it exerted an enormous influence over later symbolist and modernist poets.

Reputation of Charles Pierre Baudelaire rests primarily on perhaps the most important literary art collection, published in Europe in the 19th century. Similarly, his early experiment Petits poèmes en prose (1868) ( Little Prose Poems ) most succeeded and innovated of the time.

From financial disaster to prosecution for blasphemy, drama and strife filled life of known Baudelaire with highly controversial and often dark tales of Edgar Allan Poe. Long after his death, his name represents depravity and vice. He se ...more

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Charles Baudelaire’s books

Average rating: 4.16 · 123,134 ratings · 6,064 reviews · 1,775 distinct works • Similar authors

	Les Fleurs du Mal 4.20 avg rating — 75,300 ratings — published 1857 — 2200 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire, Louise Varèse (Translator) 4.24 avg rating — 14,774 ratings — published 1857 — 525 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poems by Charles Baudelaire, Richard Howard (Translator) 4.25 avg rating — 2,131 ratings — published 1860 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Les Paradis artificiels 3.78 avg rating — 2,218 ratings — published 1860 — 178 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays by Charles Baudelaire, Thom Mayne (Contributor) 3.91 avg rating — 1,958 ratings — published 1863 — 75 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Complete Poems: Charles Baudelaire by Charles Baudelaire, Walter Ralston Martin (Afterword) 4.29 avg rating — 1,392 ratings — published 1857 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flowers of Evil: A Selection 4.14 avg rating — 1,432 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Wine and Hashish by Charles Baudelaire, Andrew Brown (Translator), Margaret Drabble (Foreword by) 3.88 avg rating — 1,272 ratings — published 1851 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flowers of Evil and Other Works/Les Fleurs du Mal et Oeuvres Choisies : A Dual-Language Book (Dover Foreign Language Study Guides) 4.30 avg rating — 772 ratings — published 1857 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le Spleen de Paris - Les Paradis Artificiels 4.18 avg rating — 730 ratings — published 1860 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Charles Baudelaire (?)

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
― Charles Baudelaire

tags: poetry, prose, writing

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“One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen

tags: drunk, poetry, virtue, wine

2562 likes

“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”
― Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays

tags: genius

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What frequently challenged or banned adult-themed book should we read in April and May?

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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

28 votes, 22.6%

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

23 votes, 18.5%

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

14 votes, 11.3%

Carrie by Stephen King

11 votes, 8.9%

The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck, John

10 votes, 8.1%

Maurice by E.M. Forster

10 votes, 8.1%

The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire

10 votes, 8.1%

Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck, John

8 votes, 6.5%

My House by Nikki Giovanni

5 votes, 4.0%

Native Son by Richard Wright

5 votes, 4.0%

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