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Charles Baudelaire
Charles-Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet, essayist, translator and art critic. His poems are described as exhibiting mastery of rhythm and rhyme, containing an exoticism inherited from the Romantics, and are based on observations of real life.
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culture · French poet and critic (1821–1867) · poet · art critic · essayist · translator · writer · literary critic · critic · draftsperson · also Charles Baudelaire, Charles Pierre Baudelaire-Dufaÿs, Baudelaire, Charles Pierre Baudelaire
Born 9 April 1821 · Died 31 August 1867 · Q501
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En toi je tomberai, végétale ambroisie,Grain précieux jeté par l'éternel Semeur,Pour que de notre amour naisse la poésieQui jaillira vers Dieu comme une rare fleur!
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2026· 3 entries
“En toi je tomberai, végétale ambroisie,Grain précieux jeté par l'éternel Semeur,Pour que de notre amour naisse la poésieQui jaillira vers Dieu comme une rare fleur!”
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The Guardian: Cantona review - Beckham and Ferguson keen defenders as Eric gnomically quotes Baudelaire
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2022· 1 entry
San Diego Reader: Two poems about cats by Charles Baudelaire
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2020· 1 entry
Harper's Magazine: Charles Baudelaire
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2018· 1 entry
Yahoo: The 1845 Suicide Letter Of French Poet Charles Baudelaire Has Just Sold For $267,000 At Auction
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2017· 1 entry
The Guardian: Charles Baudelaire: the debauchee’s debauchee
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2016· 1 entry
The Guardian: The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire review – the essence of a genius
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2013· 1 entry
The Guardian: Fanfarlo by Charles Baudelaire – review
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2012· 1 entry
The Guardian: My hero: Charles Baudelaire by Roberto Calasso
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1922· 1 entry
Stated that, along with Alfred de Vigny, Baudelaire was "the greatest poet of the nineteenth century"
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1895· 1 entry
Stéphane Mallarmé published "Le Tombeau de Charles Baudelaire", a sonnet in Baudelaire's memory
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1867· 3 entries
Died 1867-08-31.
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“La Musique creuse le ciel”
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“Le mal se fait sans effort, naturellement, par fatalité; le bien est toujours le produit d'un art.”
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1864· 1 entry
Left Paris for Belgium, partly in the hope of selling the rights to his works and to give lectures
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1860· 3 entries
Baudelaire wrote to the composer: "I had a feeling of pride and joy in understanding, in being possessed, in being overwhelmed, a truly sensual pleasure like that of rising in the air
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Became an ardent supporter of Richard Wagner
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“I had a feeling of pride and joy in understanding, in being possessed, in being overwhelmed, a truly sensual pleasure like that of rising in the air.”
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1857· 1 entry
Baudelaire received no mention in the will but he was heartened nonetheless that the division with his mother might now be mended
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1855· 1 entry
When they were published by Baudelaire's friend Auguste Poulet-Malassis
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1847· 1 entry
Baudelaire became acquainted with the works of Poe, in which he found tales and poems that had, he claimed, long existed in his own brain but never taken shape
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1846· 1 entry
Baudelaire wrote his second Salon review, gaining additional credibility as an advocate and critic of Romanticism
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1841· 1 entry
In the hope of ending his dissolute habits
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1839· 1 entry
Told his brother "I don't feel I have a vocation for anything
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1821· 1 entry
Born 1821-04-09.
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