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  Charles Baudelaire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Baudelaire was educated in Lyon and at the Collège Louis-le-Grand in Paris.
Baudelaire was a slow and fastidious worker, and it was not until 1857 that he produced his first and most famous volume of poems, Les Fleurs du mal ("The Flowers of Evil").
Baudelaire is one of the most famous French poets and Decadent authors, but before the 20th century, his work was generally considered controversial, difficult, if not subversive.
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 The Academy of American Poets - Charles Baudelaire
The son of Joseph-Francois Baudelaire and Caroline Archimbaut Dufays, Charles Baudelaire was born in Paris in 1821.
Baudelaire was very close with his mother (much of what is known of his later life comes from the letters he wrote her), but was deeply distressed when she married Major Jacques Aupick.
Baudelaire enhanced this reputation by flaunting his eccentricities; for instance, he once asked a friend in the middle of a conversation "Wouldn't it be agreeable to take a bath with me?" Because of the abundance of stories about the poet, it is difficult to sort fact from fiction.
www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/607   (818 words)

  
 Charles Baudelaire - Wikipedia
Nachdem er als Externer 1839 das "bac" dennoch abgelegt hatte, begann er lustlos ein Jurastudium, trieb sich aber meist in der Pariser Literaten- und Künstler-Bohème herum, schrieb Gedichte (was er spätestens seit 1838 tat), machte Schulden und hatte ein Verhältnis mit einer Prostituierten.
Da er sich jedoch den Konsum von Haschisch, Opium und Alkohol angewöhnt hatte, war er ständig in Geldnot, was wiederum seine Neigung zu Depressionen verstärkte.
Schon der nachfolgenden Lyriker-Generation, den Symbolisten, z.B. Verlaine, Mallarmé oder Rimbaud, galt Baudelaire als schulemachendes Vorbild, das auch in andere Länder hinüberwirkte und in Deutschland u.a.
de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Baudelaire   (1096 words)

  
 TheCriticalPoet - Featured Poet - Charles Baudelaire
One of the greatest french poets of the 19th century, Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) was a precursor to french symbolism, and one of the earliest members of the Decadent Movement.
Baudelaire was also a translator and critic of Edgar Allan Poe.
Baudelaire translated many of Poe's works, which are classics of French prose, and wrote several critical articles on him.
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 Charles Baudelaire - Biography
Baudelaire was an only child of François Baudelaire and his younger second wife whom he had married in 1819, Caroline Defayis.
Baudelaire began his education at the Collège Royal in Lyons when Aupick was posted there, transfering to the prestigious Lacèe Louis-le-grand when the family returned to Paris in 1836.
Baudelaire's continuing extravagance exhausted half his fortune in two years, and he also fell prey to cheats and moneylenders, thus laying the foundation for an accumulation of debt that would cripple him for the rest of his life.
www.veinotte.com /baudelaire   (760 words)

  
 Charles Baudelaire - Paris 19th Century - Spirit of Bohemia - The Spirit of Bohemia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Baudelaire had been highly stimulated by the fighting; it had provided him with the kind of excitement which set his adrenaline coursing and enabled him to explode out of his habitual condition of lethargy.
Baudelaire was the revolutionary clown and courts that danger was not for the republic, but for the excitement, and the exhilarating idea of being victorious over his stepfather who was commandant of the Polytechnic School at the time.
Baudelaire occupies a pivotal position in the development of modern French writing, not just as the poet of Les Fleurs du mal, but as the proponent, in his critical writings, of a modern, and specifically urban, aesthetic based on what he called the 'innombrables rapports' and encounters of city life.
www.bohemiabooks.com.au /eblinks/spirboho/paris1830/baudelaire/index.html   (1254 words)

  
 Charles Baudelaire - Biography
Baudelaire is reliably reported to have taken part both in the working-class uprising of June 1848 and in the resistance to the Bonapartist military coup of December 1851; the latter, he claimed shortly afterwards, ended his active interest in politics.
Between 1852 and 1854 Baudelaire addressed a number of poems to Apollonie Sabatier, celebrating her, despite her reputation as a high-class courtesan, as his madonna and muse, and in 1854 he had a brief liaison with the actress Marie Daubrun.
Baudelaire as the doomed dissident and pornographic poet was born.
www.veinotte.com /baudelaire/baudelaire2.htm   (1404 words)

  
 CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
Charles Baudelaire nasce a Parigi, in una casa del Quartiere Latino, il 9 aprile del 1821.
Nel 1841, spinto dalla famiglia, Baudelaire si imbarca su una nave diretta a Calcutta, ma dopo soli dieci mesi interrompe il viaggio per fare ritorno a Parigi, dove, ormai maggiorenne, entra in possesso dell’eredità paterna (centomila franchi), che gli permette di vivere per qualche tempo in grande libertà.
Da ora in avanti, Baudelaire sarà costretto a chiedere al proprio tutore persino i soldi per un paio di pantaloni.
spazioinwind.libero.it /lalcova/charles_baudelaire.htm   (638 words)

  
 Charles Baudelaire Site..by Erin
Baudelaire resented the strict ways in which he was forced to live and was, in turn, difficult and rebellious.
Baudelaire used his writting to shock and astonish society - perhaps because of his strict upbringing and strong opposition to nearly everything that had happened in his life.
Baudelaire is attributed with much of Poe's popularity in England and France because of his translations.
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 HERMENAUT: Charles-Pierre Baudelaire: 1821-1867
For Baudelaire, it is the artist-philosopher's curse and duty to remain on the precipice of the abyss, to suffer from vertigo.
Baudelaire suffered from a kind of hermeneutic vertigo in which binary oppositions such as real/unreal, truth/falsehood, self/loss of self, moral/immoral, and even bourgeois/bohemian were rendered absurd.
Baudelaire was fascinated with Swedenborgianism because it seemed to blend the philosopher's rigorous skepticism toward received notions and modes of perception with the artist's unique ability to find the perfect symbol to express his own unique notions and perceptions.
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 Poe and Baudelaire: A Vast Ocean Apart   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Baudelaire was considered to be an erratic, distant character who led a miserable life and who wrote morbid poems concerned with death and decay.
Baudelaire believed that poetry was the highest form of expression and that in all his works he was striving for this simple, yet quite complex, form of perfection.
To Poe and to Baudelaire "the principle of poetry is strictly and simply human aspiration toward a superior beauty, and the manifestation of this principle is in an enthusiasm, and excitement of the soul..." (Hyslop 24).
www.nadn.navy.mil /EnglishDept/poeperplex/baudp.htm   (1816 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Baudelaire: Books: Jean Sartre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
baudelaire is certainly a very interesting character (to say the least) and you can probably imagine how interesting an existential psychoanalysis of him would be (by sartre of all people!), and, in my case, it was even better than i imagined.
sartre reveals baudelaire's perpetual, impossible struggle of wanting to be objectified and transcendent, his abiding by a banal moral code only so he can break it and hold himself up as evil, and so much more.
Rather than a biography of Baudelaire or a critical examination of his works, this book (actually more like a lengthy essay) is an exhaustive existential psychoanalysis of the poet by Mr.
www.amazon.ca /Baudelaire-Jean-Sartre/dp/0811201899   (542 words)

  
 Charles Baudelaire
Baudelaire's line, "-Yet you will come to this offence," is not far off from "to this favor she must come." The device of couching "Carrion" in the form of a love poem to a beautiful lady only reinforces the theme Baudelaire is exploring.
Baudelaire's recurring theme of the vampire appears briefly in the line, "and how much more I relish burial in his hot belly than in my cold vaults." The darker aspect of the poem is so deftly woven into the fabric of the verse that it does not become apparent until one reads it several times.
One reason I find Baudelaire so enjoyable is that he seems to be almost an "anti-poet." So much of poetry is concerned with idolizing and describing beauty, of taking joy in the myriad configurations of life, and compared to such poetry, Baudelaire is a breath of foul air.
www.cyberpat.com /essays/baudelaire.html   (1324 words)

  
 Charles Baudelaire
After the decision, Baudelaire constantly turned to his mother when he needed money or worried about his health or was bored - and he was always burdened with debts, partly because he tried to keep up the extravagant lifestyle of a dandy.
Baudelaire had a deep influence on a generation of poets in the late 19th century, coming into vogue at a time when "art for art's sake" was a dogma.
Baudelaire's starting point for his aesthetic analysis was the lived experience, not principles of aesthetics or abstract preconceptions about the beautiful.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /baudelai.htm   (1629 words)

  
 CHARLES BAUDELAIRE - BIOGRAFIA
I debiti, da cui Baudelaire fu afflitto per tutta la vita, indussero il patrigno a riunire nel 1844 un consiglio di famiglia per interdire il giovane e affidare il suo patrimonio all'amministrazione di Ancelle, notaio a Neuille.
L'anno dopo Baudelaire tentò il suicidio, poi uscirono le sue prime critiche d'arte e le sue prime poesie.
Baudelaire non appartenne a nessuna scuola, fu indipendente, nonostante la sua poesia derivi direttamente dal romanticismo.
www.cronologia.it /storia/biografie/baudelai.htm   (1228 words)

  
 Baudelaire (Charles)
De ce voyage, Baudelaire rapporta également les premiers poèmes de son principal recueil, les Fleurs du mal.
Baudelaire n'eut aucun mal à s'identifier à cet écrivain tourmenté, en qui il voyait un double de lui-même. Ses traductions de Poe font encore référence aujourd'hui: Histoires extraordinaires (1856), Nouvelles Histoires extraordinaires (1857), les Aventures d'Arthur Gordon Pym (1858).
Après le scandale des Fleurs du mal, Baudelaire publia encore divers poèmes en prose, qui seront regroupés et publiés après sa mort sous le titre les Petits Poèmes en prose ou le Spleen de Paris (posthume, 1869).
www.proverbes-citations.com /baudelaire.htm   (825 words)

  
 Baudelaire: Une Micro-Histoire
Baudelaire, describing her in a poem, used an image of her as a "jeune éléphant" (a young elephant!) at one point in their tumultuous relationship.
Baudelaire shared the belief of Poe, for whom the phrase "a long poem" was a contradiction in terms.
It is customary to regard Baudelaire's poetic vision as founded on the phenomenon of synesthesia, an idea of the image as composed of a mixture of simultaneous reports from the several senses.
www.library.vanderbilt.edu /baudelaire/englishintro.html   (5682 words)

  
 Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire, the great French poet of the mid nineteenth century whose powerful writing ushered in a era of symbolism, is one of the most important poets of the nineteenth century.
Baudelaire life was almost as important as his poetry.
Baudelaire's prose poems Spleen de Paris compete and indexed, in French only.
www.uvm.edu /~sgutman/Baudelaire.htm   (421 words)

  
 Astrology Software for Research - Baudelaire - astrology chart
Much to his humiliation, Baudelaire was then forced to petition an attorney for his funds, cap in hand, living on a meager monthly allowance.
Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du Mal," came out in 1857, unleashing a fire storm of criticism and nearly a century of acrimonious litigation.
Addicted to ether capsules and laudanum (opium), he sought to numb himself to the ravaging effects of syphilis, contacted in the Paris Latin Quarter as a young man. He was a cynical voluptuary, an amoral aesthete who shocked his friends by dying his hair green and sprinkling his conversation with non sequiturs.
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 Baudelaire in Chains
Hilton believes that writers on Baudelaire fail nto understand that he is a case history of opium addiction.
Baudelaire in Chains is simply that case history, using evidence from Baudelaire’s letters and behaviour in the light of modern knowledge of addiction, to make out a convincing argument.
In this fascinating and original contribution to Baudelaire studies Frank Hilton contends that the drug is at the root of all Baudelaire’s problems, and in particular his chronic inability to apply himself to any prolonged creative work which constantly tormented him.
www.peterowen.com /pages/nonfic/baudelaire.htm   (425 words)

  
 Charles Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal
Fleursdumal.org is dedicated to the French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), and in particular to Les Fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil).
If you're new to Baudelaire, or if you're not interested in the nuances of the various editions of the Flowers of Evil, you should browse poems using the 1861 Table of Contents.
While living in Brussels, Baudelaire and his publisher decided to put out this collection of "scraps" containing a miscellany of poems.
www.fleursdumal.org   (674 words)

  
 Magazine littéraire - Baudelaire, spleen, ennui, mélancolie…
Pour évoquer les ciels bas, les chutes ou les horizons rédempteurs de ce trajet, Baudelaire a utilisé le vocabulaire qu'un demi-siècle de poésie de la douleur lui avait préparé.
Baudelaire s'est penché sur le réseau hétérogène de l'ennui romantique, et il en a isolé le filon maléfique.
Baudelaire libérait ainsi la mélancolie des tristesses individuelles auxquelles elle paraissait asservie ; il en a fait le cri orchestral des " phares " et des exilés.
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 Baudelaire
Baudelaire was born in Paris on April 9, 1821, and educated at the Collège Louis-le-Grand.
Encouraged by that success and inspired by his enthusiasm for Poe, with whom he felt a strong affinity, Baudelaire continued to translate Poe's stories until 1857.In 1842 he reached his majority and inherited the legacy bequeathed by his father, and left home to enjoy a life of luxury.
The large amounts of money he spent on his flat at the Hôtel Lauzun and his decadent lifestyle earned him a reputation for eccentricity, affectation, and immorality, as well as huge debts that were to cripple him for the rest of his life.
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 Charles Baudelaire Life Stories, Books, & Links
Critics now regard it as the one of the most important and influential collections of 19th century poetry, but the newspapers of the day thought it full of "all the putresence of the human heart," and the courts excised six poems found to be "in contempt of the laws which safeguard religion and morality."
"As both poet and critic, Baudelaire stands in relation to French and European poetry as Gustave Flaubert and Èdouard Manet do to fiction and painting, respectively: as a crucial link between Romanticism and modernism and as a supreme example, in both his life and his work, of what it means to be a modern artist.
As flowers and evil play against each other in his poetry -- the naked and the adorned, the female and the male, the religious and the damned -- in his life also he was occupied with a Venus Blanche and a Venus Noire.
www.todayinliterature.com /biography/charles.baudelaire.asp   (650 words)

  
 Baudelaire, Charles - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
BAUDELAIRE, CHARLES [Baudelaire, Charles], 1821-67, French poet and critic.
Baudelaire's erratic personality was marked by moodiness, rebelliousness, and an intense religious mysticism.
Relative color: Baudelaire, Chevreul, and the reconsideration of critical methodology.(Charles Baudelaire, Michel-Eugene Chevreul)
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 Charles Baudelaire, Frederick Glaysher, literary essays, poems, reviews
Baudelaire, however, does not defend the account in Genesis.
Baudelaire was quite pained by his "disorder" and "irregular life," yet he
Baudelaire asserts he "owed eveiything" to romanticism, he realized he was, as T. Eliot called
www.fglaysher.com /Baudelai.htm   (1023 words)

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