CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE: HIS LIFE

By Théophile Gautier

With poems translated by Guy Thorne

Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a celebrated 19th century French poet, author of the famous Flowers of Evil poetic sequence, first published in 1857. Baudelaire is a poets poet par excellence, a brilliant craftsman who produced some of the finest poems in the French language. Baudelaire was known as a dandy who led a bohemian lifestyle; he knew many of the artists of the era (Manet, Nadar, Delacroix, and Gautier). Baudelaires influence on subsequent poets and artists has been immense.

This book by Charles Baudelaires friend Théophile Gautier is an important early study of the poet. Gautier offers a biography of the poet, and looks at his work. In the second part, Guy Thorne translates a selections of Baudelaires poems, including from his two best-known collections - the Flowers of Evil and the Little Poems In Prose. A group of letters from Baudelaire are also included, and an essay on Baudelaires influence.

Illustrated. 204 pages. Paperback, with a full colour cover.

With the French text of Baudelaires poetry.

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