Homer begins the Iliad invoking the anger of Achilles; Virgil, in the Aeneid, sings of arms and the man; in “Leaves of Grass,” Whitman celebrates himself. And then there is the first verse of the ...

In 1852, the March and April issues of La Revue de Paris carried an essay by Charles Baudelaire (1821–67), “Edgar Allan Poe, His Life and Works.” This was the first version of Baudelaire’s preface to ...

PARIS — On the 150th anniversary of Charles Baudelaire’s death from a syphilis-induced cerebral hemorrhage, the flâneur, poète maudit (cursed poet) of ennui, translator of Edgar Allan Poe, and art ...

Victor Hugo, revered author of Les Misérables and towering French literary giant, was also something of a nuisance – at least according to his contemporary and fellow poet Charles Baudelaire. In a ...

A privileged, arrogant poet who produced only one collection, Baudelaire has had huge influence in many spheres – and it continues 150 years after his death Pioneer poète maudit Drug-addicted, ...

“The great events I went in search of failed to reach my expectations,” wrote Alfred de Vigny, a friend of the French poet Charles Baudelaire. Richard Sieburth’s translations of Baudelaire’s last ...

GARDENER OF EVIL—Pierre Loving— Brewer and Warren ($2.50). Unless you are a student of French literature you probably think of Charles Baudelaire as an overrated, vaguely Satanic poet who wrote a ...

DURING the summer of the Paris Exhibition of 1867, while no mean part of the world was looking and wondering amid the noise of crowds at the remarkable works of invention and art, or thinking of the ...

Goths are typically regarded as being on the fringes of society – members of a subculture which finds beauty in the darker elements of human experience. And while their dress code is much imitated – ...

A letter by the French 19th-Century poet Charles Baudelaire announcing he would kill himself has sold at auction for €234,000 (£204,000; $267,000). The note, dated 30 June 1845, was addressed to ...

But then, about midway through the Old Testament, David brings the Ark of the Covenant out of the country camp of Shiloh and into Jerusalem — and suddenly, we get the likes of Isaiah saying the city ...