Baudelaire

[ bohd-l-air; French bohduh-ler ]

/ ˌboʊd lˈɛər; French boʊdəˈlɛr /

Charles Pierre

[sharl pyer] /ʃarl pyɛr/,1821–67, French poet and critic.

Example sentences from the Web for baudelaire

Whitman is made to share a chapter, lumped in with Proust, Wilde, and Baudelaire, in which he is allotted a mere paragraph.

John Sutherland‘s Enjoyable Little History of Literature |Malcolm Forbes |November 29, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
It was in one such club at the bottom end of the Champs Élysées, which was then under construction, that Baudelaire first saw her.

Baudelaire’s Femme Fatale Muse |James MacManus |May 7, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Baudelaire suspected that sometimes she sold herself on the streets to raise money.

Baudelaire’s Femme Fatale Muse |James MacManus |May 7, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Baudelaire had just turned 21, and was enjoying a substantial inheritance from his father.

Baudelaire’s Femme Fatale Muse |James MacManus |May 7, 2013 |DAILY BEAST

Baudelaire, very much the well-dressed young dandy, was watching from his carriage across the street.

Baudelaire’s Femme Fatale Muse |James MacManus |May 7, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Baudelaire has this advantage: he can be bad, but he is never common.

Charles Baudelaire, His Life |Thophile Gautier
The best and simplest way to make it clear how much Swinburne owed to Baudelaire is by means of parallel quotation.

Charles Baudelaire, His Life |Thophile Gautier
Mr Kipling's art is as formal as the art of Wilde, or the art of Baudelaire, which he helped to send out of fashion.

Rudyard Kipling |John Palmer
Think of such an accomplished practitioner as the late M. Brunetière, writing as he did of Flaubert and Baudelaire.

Ivory Apes and Peacocks |James Huneker
Baudelaire is the poet of perfumes; he is also the patron saint of ennui.

Egoists |James Huneker

Baudelaire

/ (French bodlɛr) /

Charles Pierre (ʃarl pjɛr). 1821–67, French poet, noted for his macabre imagery; author of Les fleurs du mal (1857)