The beautiful is always bizarre. -- Charles Baudelaire, who was born in Paris, France, on this day in 1821, and baptized two months later at Saint-Sulpice Roman Catholic Church. Modern poetry begins with Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), who employed his unequalled technical mastery to create the shadowy, desperately dramatic urban landscape -- populated by the addicted and the damned -- which so compellingly mirrors our modern condition. Deeply though darkly spiritual, titanic in the changes he wrought, Baudelaire looms over all the work, great and small, created in his wake.
Posted on: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 11:39:16 +0000
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