Fransız edebiyatının devrimci kalemi Baudelaire, edebiyat bahçesindeki tecrübe meyvelerini heveskâr gençlerle paylaşıyor. Esin kaynaklarını, çalışma yöntemlerini, şöhretin getirdiği handikapları, eleştirilerle göğüs göğüse çarpışmak ve başarılı bir kalemşör olmak için uygulanması gereken yöntemleri adım adım, samimiyetle aktarıyor. “Okuyacağınız tavsiyeler tecrübenin meyvesidir; deneyim denen şey belli bir miktar hatayı içinde barındırır; bu hataların hepsi (veya neredeyse hepsi) zamanında işlenmiş olduğundan, umuyorum ki benim tecrübem de hataların her biriyle doğrulanacaktır.”
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Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a 19th century French poet, translator, and literary and art critic whose reputation rests primarily on Les Fleurs du Mal; (1857; The Flowers of Evil) which was perhaps the most important and influential poetry collection published in Europe in the 19th century. Similarly, his Petits poèmes en prose (1868; "Little Prose Poems") was the most successful and innovative early experiment in prose poetry of the time. Known for his highly controversial, and often dark poetry, as well as his translation of the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Baudelaire's life was filled with drama and strife, from financial disaster to being prosecuted for obscenity and blasphemy. Long after his death many look upon his name as representing depravity and vice. Others see him as being the poet of modern civilization, seeming to speak directly to the 20th century.
