This author asked if you "observed how frequently coffins For old women are almost as small as a child's" in a poem whose speaker follows those "little old ladies" around. One of his speakers tells "my child, my sister, think of the rapture of living together there!" This author claimed that "The artist moves little, or even not at all, in intellectual and political circles" in his essay "The Painter of Modern Life." His most famous poem describes how "often, to amuse themselves the men of the crew Lay hold" of a bird. 
This author asked if you "observed how frequently coffins For old women are almost as small as a child's" in a poem whose speaker follows those "little old ladies" around. One of his speakers tells "my child, my sister, think of the rapture of living together there!" This author claimed that "The artist moves little, or even not at all, in intellectual and political circles" in his essay "The Painter of Modern Life." His most famous poem describes how "often, to amuse themselves the men of the crew Lay hold" of a bird. Jeanne Duval was the Haitian-born lover of this author of "Invitation to a Voyage" and "The Albatross". In his poem "Correspondences," this poet described nature as a "forest of symbols," from which the Symbolist movement he was head of took its name. For 10 points, name this author who included sections like "Wine" and "Spleen and Ideal" in Les Fleurs du Mal.
This author asked if you "observed how frequently coffins For old women are almost as small as a child's" in a poem whose speaker follows those "little old ladies" around.
Charles Baudelaire