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From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (April 9, 1821 – August 31, 1867) was a French poet and cultural critic1, best-known for The Flowers of Evil and his dark romanticism. He was also a translator, most notably of the works of Edgar Allan Poe. He was romantically involved with Madame Sabatier and Jeanne Duval; and member of the Club des Hashischins. He was influenced by Théophile Gautier, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Joseph de Maistre and Edgar Allan Poe and in his turn influenced Walter Benjamin, Jorge Luis Borges, T. S. Eliot, Stefan George, Michel Houellebecq, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Jules Laforgue, Comte de Lautréamont, Stéphane Mallarmé, Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine.