This author of "The Cover" and "Seven Old Men" wrote about travellers who discover "an oasis of horror in a desert of boredom" in his poem "The Voyage," and lamented the Haussmannization of Paris in a poem named for a bird which escapes its cage.
One of this author's poems compares the sky to the "black lid" of a vast cauldron which is slowly boiling all of humanity. The speaker of another of this author's poems compares his soul to "a ship without a mast on a monstrous, borderless sea" after encountering a sinister number of identical hobbled men. This author exclaimed "Andromache, I think of you!" at the beginning of a poem which laments that a city's face changes faster than a human heart. This author of "The Cover" and "Seven Old Men" wrote about travellers who discover "an oasis of horror in a desert of boredom" in his poem "The Voyage," and lamented the Haussmannization of Paris in a poem named for a bird which escapes its cage. He included that poem, "The Swan," in a collection which proclaims "hypocrite reader! my double, my brother!" For 10 points, name this French poet who included the sections "Wine," "Death," and "Spleen and Ideal" in his book The Flowers of Evil.
One of this author's poems compares the sky to the "black lid" of a vast cauldron which is slowly boiling all of humanity.
Charles Baudelaire