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

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 ...

FLOWERS OF EVIL—Charles Baudelaire; translated by George Dillon and Edna St. Vincent Millay—Harper ($2.75). Translations are tricky and most poets, at least, would say that poetry is untranslatable.

A suicide letter from the French poet Charles Baudelaire to his lover sold at auction for $266,000, more than three times its estimated sales price, the Guardian reports. The letter was written in ...

Jeanne Duval fascinates many feminist and postcolonial scholars, partly because of how little is known about her.

New Wave Arts has announced the upcoming performances of Baudelaire’s Passion, an evocative theatrical production that delves into the life, love, and art of the renowned 19th-century French poet, ...

From “Notes on Baudelaire’s Parisian Tableaux,” which was published for the first time in English in the Fall 2024 issue of October. Translated from the French by Michael Krimper. Baudelaire was ...

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, ...

Tao Siqi’s fluorescent-colored paintings, inspired by Charles Baudelaire, will be on display in the Capsule Shanghai booth at Frieze New York. By David Belcher As a teenager, the Chinese artist Tao ...

A University scholar has helped resolve one of art history's more intriguing mysteries after identifying the controversial mistress and muse of famous ...