Premium Content Baudelaire's "The Albatross" and the Changing Role of the Poet
By Anonymous - May 29, 1987
Charles Baudelaire is often considered a late Romantic poet. Even Baudelaire sought to equate himself with archetypal Romantic figures like Byron, Hugo, and Gautier; the latter once claimed that Baudelaire had "found a way to inject new life into Romanticism" with the publication of his magnum opus, Les Fleurs du Mal. However, the novelty that…
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