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Charles Baudelaire

Born

in Paris, France

April 09, 1821

Died

August 31, 1867

Genre

Poetry, Fiction

Influences

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Public condemned Les fleurs du mal (1857), obscene only volume of French writer, translator, and critic Charles Pierre Baudelaire; expanded in 1861, it exerted an enormous influence over later symbolist and modernist poets.

Reputation of Charles Pierre Baudelaire rests primarily on perhaps the most important literary art collection, published in Europe in the 19th century. Similarly, his early experiment Petits poèmes en prose (1868) ( Little Prose Poems ) most succeeded and innovated of the time.

From financial disaster to prosecution for blasphemy, drama and strife filled life of known Baudelaire with highly controversial and often dark tales of Edgar Allan Poe. Long after his death, his name represents depravity and vice. He se ...more

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Charles Baudelaire’s books

Average rating: 4.15 · 132,336 ratings · 6,918 reviews · 2,070 distinct works • Similar authors

	Les Fleurs du Mal 4.19 avg rating — 80,921 ratings — published 1857 — 864 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire, Louise Varèse (Translator) 4.23 avg rating — 15,552 ratings — published 1857 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poems by Charles Baudelaire, Richard Howard (Translator) 4.24 avg rating — 2,215 ratings — published 1860 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Les Paradis artificiels 3.78 avg rating — 2,416 ratings — published 1860 — 181 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays by Charles Baudelaire, Thom Mayne (Contributor) 3.90 avg rating — 2,122 ratings — published 1863 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Complete Poems: Charles Baudelaire by Charles Baudelaire, Walter Ralston Martin (Afterword) 4.29 avg rating — 1,465 ratings — published 1857 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flowers of Evil: A Selection 4.14 avg rating — 1,467 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Wine and Hashish by Charles Baudelaire, Andrew Brown (Translator), Margaret Drabble (Foreword by) 3.87 avg rating — 1,328 ratings — published 1851 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flowers of Evil and Other Works/Les Fleurs du Mal et Oeuvres Choisies : A Dual-Language Book 4.30 avg rating — 791 ratings — published 1857 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le Spleen de Paris - Les Paradis Artificiels 4.17 avg rating — 783 ratings — published 1860 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Charles Baudelaire (?)

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
― Charles Baudelaire

tags: poetry, prose, writing

2798 likes

“One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen

2571 likes

“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.”
― Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays

tags: genius

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Polls

March 2025 Old School Classics Poll

The Magician by W. Somerset Maugham, 1908, 240 pp

47 votes, 27.6%

The Red and the Black by Stendhal, 1830, 577 pp

43 votes, 25.3%

Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas, 1845, 845 pp

29 votes, 17.1%

The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe, 1589, 80 pp

25 votes, 14.7%

My Lady's Money by Wilkie Collins, 1878, 140 pp

16 votes, 9.4%

Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire, 1869, 118 pp

10 votes, 5.9%

170 total votes

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