Baudelaire
Americannoun
noun
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His reading was precociously broad: Marx and Engels, Baudelaire and Céline, all in their original languages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Charles Baudelaire, 19th century poet, was journalistic criticism’s first great practitioner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2025
His poetry in particular drew heavily from the European modernist tradition of Charles Baudelaire, Rainer Maria Rilke and Ezra Pound, though it remained rooted in its themes and imagery to the Piedmont South.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2024
But I found a different line on a mock street sign on the Rue Charles Baudelaire, in a middle-class neighborhood of the city’s 12th arrondissement: “There, there’s only order, beauty: abundant, calm, voluptuous.”
From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2023
Klaus pictured Mr. Poe arriving in his car and putting the Baudelaire orphans inside, to go somewhere else, and felt a stirring of hope.
From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket
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