Poetes Maudits: Charles Baudelaire, Francois Villon, Stephane Mallarme, Karel Hynek Macha, Comte de Lautreamont, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: Charles Baudelaire, Francois Villon, Stephane Mallarme, Karel Hynek Macha, Comte de Lautreamont, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Alfred de Vigny, Antonin Artaud, Edward Stachura, Dino Campana, Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Nikolaus Lenau, Alejandra Pizarnik, Armand Robin, Tristan Corbiere, Poete maudit, Ilarie Voronca, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Jean-Pierre Duprey, Andre de Richaud, Jacques Prevel, Gerald Neveu, Gilberte H. Dallas, Manfred Jung, Jean-Philippe Salabreuil, Andre Frederique, Roger Milliot, Roger-Arnould Riviere, Poetes maudits d'aujourd'hui: 1946-1970. Excerpt: Charles Baudelaire (French: April 9, 1821 - August 31, 1867) was a major 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 nineteenth century. Baudelaire's highly original style of prose-poetry influenced a whole generation of poets including Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud and Stephane Mallarme among many others. He is credited with coining the term "modernity" (modernite) to designate the fleeting, ephemeral experience of life in an urban metropolis, and the responsibility art has to capture that experience. Baudelaire is one of the major innovators in French literature. His poetry is influenced by the French romantic poets of the earlier 19th century, although its attention to the formal features of verse connect it more closely to the work of the contemporary 'Parnassians'. As for theme and tone, in his works we see the rejection of the belief in the supremacy of nature and the fundamental goodness of man as typically espoused by the romantics and expressed by them in rhetorical, effusive and public voice in favor of a new urban...