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Charles Baudelaire

November 2019

  • french poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) photo by Etienne Carjat c. 1866<br>UNSPECIFIED - FEBRUARY 01: french poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) photo by Etienne Carjat c. 1866 (Photo by Apic/Getty Images)

    Baudelaire’s unknown extra verse to erotic poem revealed

    New lines to The Jewels, inscribed in a copy of Les Fleurs du Mal, has been unveiled as the volume comes up for auction

April 2019

  • Cosmic wheels of colour … the cathedral’s rose windows.

    Notre Dame and the culture it inspired – from Matisse to the Muppets

    It mesmerised Proust, terrified Homer Simpson and gave us the Hunchback – Guardian critics celebrate Paris’s gothic masterpiece at the heart of the modern imagination

January 2019

  • Close-up of mute swan

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: Why the swan by Andrew Lambeth

    The writer discovers in this familiar but enigmatic creature an elusive emblem

November 2018

  • FILES-FRANCE-ARTS-LITERATURE<br>(FILES) Afile photo taken on October 25, 2018 shows the suicide letter of Baudelaire, included in part of a collection of autographs and manuscripts, ahead of their auction in Paris. - A youth letter from Charles Baudelaire announcing his intention to commit suicide was sold on November 4, 2018 for 234,000 euros, three times the estimated price, at an auction organised the auction house Osenat. (Photo by JACQUES DEMARTHON / AFP)JACQUES DEMARTHON/AFP/Getty Images

    Baudelaire suicide letter fetches three times estimated price at auction

    French poet’s letter to his mistress, ahead of an unsuccessful attempt to kill himself, aged 24, has sold for €234,000 (£205,000)

September 2017

  • Charles Baudelaire

    Books blog
    Charles Baudelaire: the debauchee’s debauchee

    A privileged, arrogant poet who produced only one collection, Baudelaire has had huge influence in many spheres – and it continues 150 years after his death

November 2016

  • Arthur Rackham Little Red Riding Hood

    Cinderella as masochist, Red Riding Hood as trickster: new book resurrects 'troubling' fairytales

    ‘Deliciously cruel’ 19th century twists on favourite stories, as adapted by Baudelaire and Apollinaire, make English debut in new book, Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned

May 2016

  • Charles Baudelaire photographed by Etienne Carjat c1866.

    Nicholas Lezard's choice
    The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire review – the essence of a genius

    Nicholas Lezard’s paperback of the week: this translation is the best way yet for English speakers to enter the poet’s dream-like world

August 2015

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    The 10 best ...
    The 10 best stoners

    As Shakespeare is outed as a potential pothead and before September’s release of stoner movie American Ultra, here’s a tally of tokers from Withnail and I to Caddyshack

December 2014

  • Cat

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: Cat by John Gallas

    In this modern take on Baudelaire, a moment of sensual connection with a pet resonates with a lover’s unknowability

July 2014

  • From left: Ford Madox Ford, James Joyce, Ezra Pound and John Quinn at Pound's place in Paris in 1923

    Nicholas Lezard's choice
    The Symbolist Movement in Literature by Arthur Symons review – the book that changed 20th-century literature

    Nicholas Lezard's paperback of the week: No ordinary work of lit crit, it's also about life, inspiring James Joyce to go to Paris and Ezra Pound to called Symons a god

June 2014

  • Charles Baudelaire

    Baudelaire dismissed Victor Hugo as 'an idiot' in unseen letter

    In contrast to public praise of Les Misérables author, correspondence reveals private contempt

December 2013

  • CHRISTIANE F [W GER 1981]

    Heroin: art and culture's last taboo

    It wrecks lives – but it has also inspired art from the poetry of Baudelaire to the music of Lou Reed. Andrew Hussey traces the path of heroin through modern European culture

September 2013

  • Patrons at the famous Cafe de Flore, on the corner of Boulevard Saint-Germain and Rue St Benoit in P

    Top 10s
    Lisa Appignanesi's top 10 books about Paris

    From Baudelaire to Balzac to Proust, these 10 titles provide an insider's guide to a city of intrigue, romance and squalor

June 2013

  • Moyra Davey's shot of Baudelaire's grave

    My best shot
    Moyra Davey's best photograph: Baudelaire's grave in Montparnasse cemetery

    'I became fascinated by the French custom of leaving train tickets on graves. This one is Baudelaire's'

May 2013

  • Portrait of Charles Baudelaire

    Classics corner
    Fanfarlo by Charles Baudelaire – review

    Baudelaire's autobiographical novella paints an intriguing picture of himself as a young dandy, writes Natasha Tripney

January 2013

  • french poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) photo by Etienne Carjat c. 1866

    La Folie Baudelaire by Roberto Calasso – review

    Roberto Calasso's study of Baudelaire and 19th-century Paris triumphs in its ability to bring its subjects to life, writes Lucian Robinson

December 2012

  • Charles Baudelaire

    La Folie Baudelaire by Roberto Calasso, translated by Alastair McEwen - review

    Alex Danchev is dazzled by Roberto Calasso's meditations on Baudelaire
  • Joaquin Phoenix … 'There are elements of yourself in every character.'

    The top 10 films and albums of the year
    Joaquin Phoenix: 'I feel like Santa Claus'

    The genial star of our No 1 film of 2012 The Master, Joaquin Phoenix, talks about Baudelaire, bullfrogs and being revered
  • Charles Baudelaire

    My hero
    My hero: Charles Baudelaire by Roberto Calasso

    7 Dec 2012: 'Even when he is most harrowing, he gives pleasure'

September 2010

  • Oscar Wilde

    Books blog
    Where did the decadent novel go?

    John Lucas: If ever an age called for the kind of self-conscious maximalism pioneered by Wilde, Baudelaire and Huysmans, it is ours. Instead, we are beset with dreary naturalism
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