Author: Charles Baudelaire

Known to his contemporaries primarily as an art critic, but ambitious to secure a more lasting literary legacy, Parisian bohemian Charles Baudelair...

Baudelaire's prose poems were written over many years and published in magazines between 1855 and his death in 1867. Francis Scarfe's translations ...

Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his ver...

Among the earliest artistic descriptions of the hallucinogenic experience in European literature, the four pieces in this volume document Gautiers ...