| Nineteenth-century French poet Charles Baudelaire wrote musical verse as one of the most prominent of the French symbolists. Baudelaire provoked the wrath of the French government for offending public morals with his only major book of poetry, the 1857 work Fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil). Considered a master of the sonnet form and a brilliant literary critic, Baudelaire also helped introduce the works of Edgar Allan Poe to Europe as a translator. Baudelaire’s notoriously decadent life led to his premature death at the age of 46. |
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