Spine title: Writings on art & artists Includes bibliographical references.

Translated articles illustrating the development of Baudelaire's critical ideas.

Discusses works by great painters such as Delacroix and Ingres. This title features writings on Poe, Flaubert and Gautier.

Before publishing Les Fleurs du Mal in 1857, Baudelaire was probably better known to his contemporaries as a critic than as a poet, and the articles translated