Baudelaire

Baudelaire, Charles, was born at Paris in April, 1821. After residing for a while in the East Indies he returned to Paris and became rather a distinguished figure in the romantic school of poetry. His Les Fleurs du Mal, portions of which first appeared in the Revue des Deux Mondes, on account of their immorality led to a prosecution when they appeared in volume form in 1857. More pleasant reading was furnished by his fifty Petits Poemes en Prose, and his critical essays which were collected under the title of L'Art Romantique. His translation of the works of Edgar Allan Poe is for accuracy and brilliance considered the best in literature. Some suppressed poems were published in Brussels under the title of Les Epaves. He died in 1867.