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  <name><![CDATA[Charles Baudelaire]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Charles Baudelaire was a 19th century French poet, translator, and literary and art critic whose reputation rests primarily on Les Fleurs du mal; (1857; The Flowers of Evil) which was perhaps the most important and influential poetry collection published in Europe in the 19th century. Similarly, his Petits poèmes en prose (1868; &quot;Little Prose Poems&quot;) was the most successful and innovative early experiment in prose poetry of the time.

Known for his highly controversial, and often dark poetry, as well as his translation of the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Baudelaire's life was filled with drama and strife, from financial disaster to being prosecuted for obscenity and blasphemy. Long after his death many look upon his name as representing depravity and vice: Others see him as being the poet of modern civilization, seeming to speak directly to the 20th century.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Paris</hometown>  <born_at>04/09/1821</born_at>  <died_at>08/31/1867</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Les Fleurs Du Mal]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Richard Howard]]></name>
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  <published>1857</published>  
  
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        <book id="24601">
  <title><![CDATA[Paris Spleen (New Directions Paperbook)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Charles Baudelaire]]></name>
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  <published>1962</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Twenty Prose Poems]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Charles Baudelaire]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.38</average_rating>
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  <published>1968</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Baudelaire Rimbaud Verlaine: Selected Verse and Prose Poems]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Charles Baudelaire]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.15</average_rating>
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  <published>2000</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Charles Baudelaire]]></name>
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        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Jonathon Mayne]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.19</average_rating>
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  <published>1978</published>  
  
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        <book id="24605">
  <title><![CDATA[On Wine and Hashish]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Charles Baudelaire]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.10</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>84</ratings_count>
  <published>1964</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Baudelaire: Poems]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Charles Baudelaire]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.17</average_rating>
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  <published>1993</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Parisian Prowler: Le Spleen De Paris Petits Poemes En Prose]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Charles Baudelaire]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.39</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>54</ratings_count>
  <published>1990</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Complete Poems]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Charles Baudelaire]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.54</average_rating>
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  <published>1976</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Flowers of Evil &amp; Paris Spleen]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Charles Baudelaire]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.54</average_rating>
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  <published>1991</published>  
  
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