Six poems excised from this man's major collection, including "The Jewels" and "The Vampire's Metamorphoses," were published as Les Épaves, or "Scraps.
Six poems excised from this man's major collection, including "The Jewels" and "The Vampire's Metamorphoses," were published as Les Épaves, or "Scraps." This author's discussion of "the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent which make up one half of art," in an essay on the painter Constantin Guys titled "The Painter of Modern Life," is credited with developing the concept of "modernity." He dedicated to Victor Hugo a poem beginning "Andromache, I think of you!" entitled "The (*) Swan." He compared a poet to a "price of cloud and sky," a large bird whose "giant wings prevent him from walking," in the poem "The Albatross," which appears in a collection he addressed to a "hypocritical reader" that contains the sections "Wine" and "Spleen and Ideal." For 10 points, name this French poet of The Flowers of Evil, or Les Fleurs du Mal.
Six poems excised from this man's major collection, including "The Jewels" and "The Vampire's Metamorphoses," were published as Les Épaves, or "Scraps.
Charles [Pierre] Baudelaire