Cielo neblinoso charles baudelaire biography

Who was Charles Baudelaire?

Charles PierreBaudelaire was a French poet who also producednotable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneeringtranslator of EdgarAllan Poe. His most famous work, Les Fleurs du mal, expresses the changingnature of beauty in modern, industrializingParisduring the 19th century.

Baudelaire's highlyoriginalstyle of prose-poetry influenced a wholegeneration of poetsincluding Paul Verlaine, ArthurRimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé among many others. He is credited with coining the term "modernity" to designate the fleeting, ephemeralexperience of life in an urban metropolis, and the responsibility art has to capture that experience.

Famous Quotes:

• Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
• Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
• The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of phil