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 ...

The Flowers of Evil By Charles Baudelaire Translated by Keith Waldrop (Wesleyan University Press, 196 pp, $24.95) By the time of his death, Les Fleurs du mal already had a second life in England.

Around, let’s say, 1885 the young French poet Jules Laforgue was living in Berlin and scribbling observations in his notebooks. He was reading Charles Baudelaire’s notorious book of poetry, Les Fleurs ...

Lemony Snicket is more than just a quirky, dry-witted narrator in A Series of Unfortunate Events, he’s a character with a vested interest in telling the tale of the Baudelaire Orphans: Klaus, Violet, ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Have you ever had to crop your ex out of a photograph? Well, how about having to ask your mate to erase them from a 20-foot oil painting? Duval was a French actress and courtesan, whose had a ...

If Charles Baudelaire had lived a century-and-a-half later, I suspect he would have been a rock star. A tormented genius, like Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, consumed by the ...

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 ...

Roberto Calasso takes his cue from Sainte-Beuve: "M Baudelaire has found a way to construct, at the extremities of a strip of land held to be uninhabitable and beyond the confines of known Romanticism ...