Baudelaire
CHARLES (bōd- 21, 1821.
In his youth he traveled to India, and is said to have likewise visited and Madagascar. On his return to Paris he became a notable figure in the second group of romantic poets the Romanticists of 1830. His "Flowers who carried on the movement begun by of Evil," a volume of poems issued in 1857, was the subject of a prosecution on the score of immorality. He afterward published "Artificial Paradises," taining selections from Poe and De Quincey, besides original material. His occasional essays, collected in a volume able for the finish of the style and the entitled entitled "Romanesque Art," are remarkremarksubtlety of the criticism. Apart from his verse, however, Baudelaire's finest work is contained in his 50 "Little Aug. 31, 1867.
Poems in Prose."
He died in Paris, con- BAUER