NAME: Charles Pierre Baudelaire
BORN: April 9, 1821 Paris, France
DIED: August 31, 1867 (aged 46) Paris, France
OCCUPATION: Poet, art critic
NATIONALITY: French
LITERARY MOVEMENT: Symbolist, Modernist
Abstract
Charles Baudelaire is one of the major innovators in French literature. In the earlier 19th century, His poetry is influenced by the French romantic poets. Charles Baudelaire was a French poet who produced famous work as an essayist, art criticism and initiating translator of Edgar Allan Poe. The Flowers of Evil is His most famous work, expresses the changing nature of beauty in modern. Baudelaire's highly original style of prose-poetry influenced a whole generation of poets such as Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud and Stephane Mallarme. He is credited with created the term "modernity" to designate the fleeting, transitory experience of life in an urban metropolis, and the responsibility art has to capture that experience.
Charles Pierre Baudelaire
Table of Contents ABSTRACT..................................................................................................................... ii
INTRODUCTON........................................................................................................... 1
CHARLES’ CHILDHOOD........................................................................................ 2
EDUCATION.................................................................................................................. 2
TRAVEL TO INDIA, IN 1841................................................................................... 3
PUBLISHED CAREER................................................................................................ 3
THE LAST YEAR OF CHARLES........................................................................... 4