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In nineteenth-century Paris, Charles Baudelaire provoked the excoriations of critics and was legally banned for corrupting public morality, yet he was a key influence on many later thinkers and writers, including Marcel Proust, Walter Benjamin, and T. S. Eliot. Baudelaire's life was as controversial and vivid as his works, as Rosemary Lloyd reveals in Charles Baudelaire, a succinct yet learned recounting. Lloyd argues that Baudelaire's writings and life were intimately intertwined—and both were powerfully informed by contemporaneous political events, from his participation in the 1848 Revolution to the public morality codes that banned his controversial writings, such as Les fleurs du mal. The book traces the influence of these events and other political moments in his poems and essays and analyzes his works in this new light. Lloyd also examines the links between Baudelaire's works and cultural movements of the time, from the rise and fall of Romanticism to symbolism, and explores his groundbreaking translations of Edgar Allan Poe's writings into French. Baudelaire's tumultuous personal life figures large here, too, as Lloyd draws out fascinating aspects of his personality and dai

Who reads Charles Beaudelaire?

Author

Rosemary Lloyd

Publisher

Reaktion Books; Reaktion

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781861894120

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Fiction, Romance

Rating

3.6 / 5 (14 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14