← Charles BaudelaireLes Fleurs du Malby Charles BaudelairePoetry exploring beauty, decay, eroticism, and existential despairFind on Amazon↗About the authorCharles BaudelaireFrench poet whose Les Fleurs du Mal shocked his contemporaries and transformed the trajectory of Western poetry. His concept of modernity, his synesthetic imagery, and his urban sensibility were seminal for symbolism and beyond.More by Charles BaudelaireLe Spleen de ParisProse poems capturing urban ennui, beauty, and moral corruption→Les Paradis ArtificielsEssays exploring the aesthetic and psychological effects of intoxication→Curiosites EsthetiquesEssays and criticism on art, beauty, and aesthetic philosophy→
