Baudelaire Poems - Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Author:Charles Baudelaire 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 ov... more »er all the work, great and small, created in his wake.« less