Charles Baudelaires quote of the day, “Always be a poet, even in prose,” shows why his 1857 Les Fleurs du mal still influences writers in 2026. The collection reshaped modern poetry and literature. It ...

In 1852, the March and April issues of La Revue de Paris carried an essay by Charles Baudelaire (1821–67), “Edgar Allan Poe, His Life and Works.” This was the first version of Baudelaire’s preface to ...

Goths are typically regarded as being on the fringes of society – members of a subculture which finds beauty in the darker elements of human experience. And while their dress code is much imitated – ...

The Yale historian argued that Charles Baudelaire’s "gray zone" of complicity and irony represents the most typical ...

This weekend in Chicago, a small theater troupe with a big resume will present all of the poems in Charles Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du Mal" —... Poetry Of Failure Comes To Life At Chicago's ...

Born in Paris in 1821, Charles Baudelaire was an author of critically acclaimed essays and poems. But it was his concept of the “flaneur” that is perhaps his best and most appreciated legacy, ...

Cats choose, like them, to sit, and like them, shudder. Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) is one of the most important poets in French literature (he also made a name for himself as a literary and art ...