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Informationen zum Autor Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821 - 1867) 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 (The Flowers of Evil), 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" (modernité) to designate the fleeting, ephemeral experience of life in an urban metropolis and the responsibility art has to capture that experience. Klappentext Translated articles illustrating the development of Baudelaire's critical ideas. Zusammenfassung Before publishing Les Fleurs du Mal in 1857! Baudelaire was probably better known to his contemporaries as a critic than as a poet! and the articles translated here by P. E. Charvet illustrate the development of Baudelaire's critical ideas. These essays cover the visual! literary! and musical arts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Extracts from the Salon of 1845; 2. Extracts from the Salon of 1846; 3. Of virtuous plays and novels; 4. The universal exhibition of 1855: the fine arts; 5. Of the essence of laughter and generally of the comic in the plastic arts; 6. Edgar Allen Poe, his life and works; 7. Further notes on Edgar Poe; 8. Some French caricaturists; 9. Some foreign caricaturists; 10. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert; 11. Théophile Gautier; 12. Extracts from the Salon of 1859; 13. Richard Wagner and Tannhäuser in Paris; 14. The life and work of Eugène Delacroix; 15. The painter of modern life; Notes.
