Baudelaire
French decadent poet
Baudelaire refers to Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), the French poet whose collection *Les Fleurs du mal* (The Flowers of Evil) established him as a founding figure of literary modernism.
His work explored beauty in decay, urban alienation, and transgressive themes that scandalized his era.
Baudelairean describes writing that shares his dark aestheticism or obsession with sin and sensuality: The novel had a Baudelairean fascination with corruption.
Representing concepts through images
- verseMetered poetic passage
- spleenBlood-filtering abdominal organ
- decadenceMoral decline through excess
- modernismFavoring contemporary approaches
prosody · sonnet · lyricism · melancholy · ennui · aesthetic · stanza · imagery
Idle urban observer
- modernityBeing of present times
- dandyismPreoccupation with elegant dress
- ennuiWeary, listless dissatisfaction
- spleenBlood-filtering abdominal organ
ideal · beauty · evil · duality · transience · urban · consciousness · aestheticism
Artists using emblems over direct statement
- PoeAmerican gothic writer's surname
- ProustFrench novelist of memory
- decadentsThose favoring luxurious excess
- surrealistsArtists depicting irrational imagery
Eliot · modernists · translation · legacy · disciples · successors · literary · avant-garde
Narcotic from scored seedpods
- syphilisSpirochete-caused venereal infection
- debtMoney owed another
- dandyFashion-obsessed gentleman
- exileBanishment from homeland
Brussels · mother · stepfather · poverty · trial · censorship · hashish · addiction
Idle urban observer
- boulevardsBroad, tree-lined streets
- arcadesCovered passages or gaming halls
- cafesInformal eateries serving drinks
- HaussmannNapoleon III's urban planner
bohemian · Left Bank · urban · crowds · gaslight · prostitutes · ragpickers · modernity
symbolism
Representing concepts through images
- verseMetered poetic passage
- spleenBlood-filtering abdominal organ
- decadenceMoral decline through excess
modernism · prosody · sonnet · lyricism · melancholy · ennui · aesthetic · stanza · imagery · metaphor
flaneur
Idle urban observer
- modernityBeing of present times
- dandyismPreoccupation with elegant dress
- ennuiWeary, listless dissatisfaction
spleen · ideal · beauty · evil · duality · transience · urban · consciousness · aestheticism · transcendence
symbolists
Artists using emblems over direct statement
- PoeAmerican gothic writer's surname
- ProustFrench novelist of memory
- decadentsThose favoring luxurious excess
Eliot · surrealists · modernists · translation · legacy · disciples · successors · literary · avant-garde · aestheticism
opium
Narcotic from scored seedpods
exile · Brussels · mother · stepfather · poverty · trial · censorship · hashish · addiction · dissolution
flaneur
Idle urban observer
- boulevardsBroad, tree-lined streets
- arcadesCovered passages or gaming halls
- cafesInformal eateries serving drinks
Haussmann · bohemian · Left Bank · urban · crowds · gaslight · prostitutes · ragpickers · modernity · streets
- literaturebooks, book, fiction, poetry, stories
- 1800s FiguresDarwin, Marx, Dickens, Beethoven, Napoleon
- love poetrylove poems, love poem, love poetry, love sonnets, love sonnet
- French LiteratureVictor Hugo, Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Dumas, Jules Verne
- European AuthorsShakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Jane Austen, Dante
- French FiguresNapoleon Bonaparte, Marie Antoinette, Joan of Arc, Louis XIV, Louis XVI
BaudelaireLongfellow
American nineteenth-century poet
Wordsworth · Whittier · Tennyson · Whitman · Robert Frost
BaudelaireWordsworth