Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire (1821 – 1867) was a French poet, art critic and translator (for example of Edgar Allan Poe). His work had a major influence on modernism and on later poets such as Verlaine, Rimbaud and Mallarmé. He coined the term ‘modernity’ to express the changing nature of beauty amid the early industrialisation of Paris. His most famous work Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) was published in 1857.