Related e. Wikipedia Wiktionary Shop. Charles Baudelaire was bom in Paris in Upon re- ceiving his degree in from the College Louis-le-Grand in Paris, he began his sensational literary career. After a life characterized by poverty, excesses, and controversy, he died in Baudelaire first attracted public attention with two of his earliest writings on ait— The Salon of and The Salon of He wrote only one book of poetry, the famous Fleurs du mal , whose successive revisions occupied him throughout his Hfe.
He was also the translator of such works of Edgar AUan Poe as Histoires extraor- dinaires and Histoires grotesques et serieuses Though The Mirror of Art is a title invented by Bau- delaire himself, the book, first published in , is com- posed of excerpts from two collections of Baudelaire's art criticism which were not compiled imtil after his death.
These are Curiosites esthetiques and VArt ro- mantique Ary Scheffer and the apes of ' sentiment— On some doubters— On landscape— Why.
The modern artist— The modern public and photog- raphy—The queen of the faculties— The govern- ance of the imagination— Religion, history, fantasy —Portraiture-Landscape— Sculpture— Envoi.
To these editions I am indebted for much of the material contained in those footnotes which are preceded by a numerical reference. All footnotes, or parts of footnotes, included between an asterisk and the initials 'C.
