Charles Baudelaire
| French poet, creator of the sensational book 'Flowers of Evil' Date of Birth: Country: France |
Biography of Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire was a French poet and critic who played a significant role in shaping the development of modern poetry. He was born on April 9, , in Paris. Baudelaire's school years were unremarkable and ended in expulsion from the prestigious Collège Louis-le-Grand for a minor offense. He was then assigned a guardian or tutor. In , Baudelaire passed his bachelor's degree exam and enrolled in the National School of Chartes, immersing himself in the student life of the Latin Quarter, where he accumulated debts. Concerned about his extravagance, his family tolerated his student life for two years. His stepfather paid off his debts, after which he was sent to India for two years. However, due to a storm, the ship only made it to the island of Mauritius, where Baudelaire convinced the captain to send him back to France. In early , he was already back in Paris.
Two months after his return, upon reaching adulthood, Baudelaire inherited an estate worth approximately 75, francs. In , his family was horrified to
Remordimiento póstumo, de Charles Baudelaire | Poema
Una carroña, de Charles Baudelaire | Poema
Recuerdas el objeto que vimos, mi alma,
aquella hermosa mañana de estío tan apacible;
a la vuelta de un sendero, una carroña infame
sobre un lecho sembrado de guijarros,Embriagaos, de Charles Baudelaire | Poema
Hay que estar ebrio siempre.
Todo reside en eso: ésta es la única cuestión.
Para no sentir el horrible peso del Tiempo que nos rompe las espaldas,
y nos hace inclinar hacia la tierra, hay que embriagarse sin descanso.
Pero, ¿de qué? De vino, de poesía o de virtud,El vampiro, de Charles Baudelaire | Poema
Tú que, como una cuchillada,
en mi corazón doliente has entrado;
tú que, fuerte como un tropel
de demonios, llegas, loca y adornada,de mi espíritu humillado
haces tu lecho y tu imperio,
—infame a quien estoy ligado,
como el forzado a la cadena,A la que pasa, de Charles Baudelaire | Poema
La avenida estridente en torno de mí aullaba.
Alta, esbelta, de luto, en pena majestuosa,
pasó aquella muchacha. Con su mano fastuosa
Casi apartó las puntas del velo que llevaba.
Charles Baudelaire
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Synopsis
Charles Baudelaire was a French poet born on April 9, , in Paris, France. In , he published his first work. Baudelaire gained notoriety for his volume of poems, Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil). His themes of sex, death, lesbianism, metamorphosis, depression, urban corruption, lost innocence and alcohol not only gained him loyal followers, but also garnered controversy. The courts punished Baudelaire, his publisher and the book's printer for offending public morality, and as such, suppressed six of the poems. Baudelaire died on August 31, in Paris.
Early life
Charles Baudelaire was born in Paris, France on April 9, , to François Baudelaire, a senior civil servant and amateur artist, and his wife, Caroline. After François died, in , Caroline married Lieutenant Colonel Jacques Aupick, who later became a prominent ambassador.
As a young man, Baudelaire studied law at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. Dissatisfied with his choice of profession, he began to drink daily, hire prostitutes and run up considerable debts. Upon obtaining his degree in , Baudelaire chose not to pursue law—to his mother’s chagrin—and turned to a career in literature
Who was Charles Baudelaire?
Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. His most famous work, Les Fleurs du mal, expresses the changing nature of beauty in modern, industrializing Paris during the 19th century. Baudelaire's highly original style of prose-poetry influenced a whole generation of poets including Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé among many others. He is credited with coining the term "modernity" to designate the fleeting, ephemeral experience 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 philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists
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