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 – ...

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 ...

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 ...

If translation sounds like a dusty occupation, you don't know the fearless work of Aaron Poochigian. This onetime Minnesotan spilled blood at the Guthrie Theater in 2020 with his visceral, ...

New lines to The Jewels, inscribed in a copy of Les Fleurs du Mal, has been unveiled as the volume comes up for auction More than 150 years ago, Charles Baudelaire scrawled an extra verse of his ...

In a small garret room on the Isle Saint Louis in Paris, Charles Baudelaire sits and writes. He has a fuming pipe in his mouth, a book propped against his table, and there is a gleaming white goose ...

Born on 9 April, 1821, Charles Pierre Baudelaire was not only one of the greatest French poets of the 19th century but also a popular precursor of the French symbolist movement. Most famously known ...

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 ...

Opium loomed large when Charles Baudelaire wrote “The Double Room” in the 1860s. For the first half of this disquieting prose poem, the celebrated French poet finds himself in a dreamlike chamber of ...