Baudelaire Les Fleurs Du Mal

Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) is the leading poet of nineteenth-century France: to some, he is the finest of all French poets. His output was comparatively small and virtually all his poems belong in the volume called Les Fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil), much of which was written when he was still in his twenties; when it was published in 1857 it was the subject of a trial for blasphemy and immorality. Baudelaire never married, and for much of his life carried on a tumultuous, unhappy love affair with the mulatto Jeanne Duval. Laurence Lerner, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, was for many years Professor of English at the University of SussexBaudelaire, Charles is the author of 'Baudelaire Les Fleurs Du Mal', published 2004 under ISBN 9780753817445 and ISBN 0753817446.