For 10 points, name this French poet who wrote Les Fleurs du Mal.
This poet wrote about a woman who could make "in the shelter of those shady retreats / A thousand sonnets grow in the hearts of poets" in the poem "To a Creole Lady." In one of this author's poems a mother of a poet "raises her clenched fist to God, who pities her" and cries out, "Ah! would that I had spawned a whole knot of vipers / Rather than to have fed this derisive object!", while another poem discusses a figure "who like the stab of a knife / Entered my plaintive heart." The speaker of one of this poet's works sees the title creature escape from a cage and moan, "Rain, when will you fall? Thunder, when will you roll?" in a poem that begins "Andromache, I think of you!" [?] This poet collected "The Denial of St. Peter" and "The Litanies of Satan" in the section Revolt, and he grouped the aforementioned poems "Benediction" and "Vampire" in the first section of his best-known work, Spleen and Ideal. For 10 points, name this French poet who wrote Les Fleurs du Mal.
This poet wrote about a woman who could make "in the shelter of those shady retreats / A thousand sonnets grow in the hearts of poets" in the poem "To a Creole Lady."
Charles {Baudelaire}