num_pages: 256
description: Modern poetry begins with Charles Baudelaire (1821-67), who employed his unequalled technical mastery to create the shadowy, desperately dramatic urban landscape -- populated by the addicted and the damned -- which so compellingly mirrors our modern condition. Deeply though darkly spiritual, titanic in the changes he wrought, Baudelaire looms over all the work, great and small, created in his wake.
language: English
title: Poems
titlecomplete: Poems
genres: Classics, France, Collections, Fiction, Literature, French Literature, Poetry, Academic
ratings_count: 1565
publisher: Everyman's Library