The Romanic Review, January 1st, 2005
"Le Dandy ... doit vivre et dormir devant un miroir." Baudelaire
Baudelaire's work is far from self-evidently autobiographical. Les Fleurs du mal, for instance, cannot be easily compared to a self-declared poetic autobiography like Hugo's Contemplations where the poems are of decidedly personal inspiration, bear dates that attach them to experience, and lay out a plausible narrative of poetic development. In contrast, Baudelaire's undated poems appear impersonal and, in their emblematic character, untethered to experience. While the poet does give the collection the status of an expressive ...
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