![]() His body of work includes a novella, influential translations of the American writer Edgar Allan Poe, highly perceptive criticism of contemporary art, provocative journal entries, and critical essays on a variety of subjects. Baudelaire is distinctive in French literature also in that his skills as a prose writer virtually equal his ability as a poet. While Baudelaire’s contemporary Victor Hugo is generally-and sometimes regretfully-acknowledged as the greatest of 19th-century French poets, Baudelaire excels in his unprecedented expression of a complex sensibility and of modern themes within structures of classical rigor and technical artistry. Charles Baudelaire is one of the most compelling poets of the 19th century.
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