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,
Georges Bataille,
Michel Houellebecq,
Joris-Karl Huysmans,
Jules Laforgue,
Comte de Lautréamont,
Stéphane Mallarmé,
Arthur Rimbaud and
Paul Verlaine.
