Baudelaire

Baude·laire

 (bōd-lâr′), Charles Pierre 1821-1867.

French writer, translator, and critic. His only volume of poetry, Les fleurs du mal (1857, expanded 1861), was publicly condemned as obscene but exerted an enormous influence over later symbolist and modernist poets.

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Baudelaire

(French bodlɛr)

n

(Biography) Charles Pierre (ʃarl pjɛr). 1821–67, French poet, noted for his macabre imagery; author of Les fleurs du mal (1857)

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Bau•de•laire

(ˌboʊd lˈɛər)

n.

Charles Pierre, 1821–67, French poet.

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Baudelaire - a French poet noted for macabre imagery and evocative language (1821-1867) Charles Baudelaire, Charles Pierre Baudelaire

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