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'''Charles Baudelaire''' (1821 - 1867) was a controversial [[French]] poet and critic, called "the father of modern criticism". He wrote ''Les Fleurs du mal'' (The Flowers of Evil). | '''Charles Baudelaire''' (1821 - 1867) was a controversial [[French]] poet and critic, called "the father of modern criticism". He wrote ''Les Fleurs du mal'' (The Flowers of Evil). | ||
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Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867) was a controversial French poet and critic, called "the father of modern criticism". He wrote Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil).
Baudelaire was a strong supporter of the Romantic painter Eugene Delacroix; he called him "a poet in painting".
"Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject nor in exact truth, but in a way of feeling."