Charles Baudelaire: A Study (Illustrated)

This book provides an in-depth look at Charles Baudelaire, an influential French poet, pioneering translator, and art critic, who spent his life crippled by stress, poverty, and a debilitating health condition. There is evidence that many of his offerings were drug-induced as well as the notion that he was involved in Satanism.

Baudelaire's highly original style of prose-poetry influenced a whole generation of poets including Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé among many oth...