Autor: Lois and Francis E. Hyslop

Poet, essayist, and art critic Charles Baudelaire (1821–67) wrote the highly influential Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil), an 1857 book of decadent and erotic poetry. Baudelaire shared with Poe an appreciation of the macabre and supernatural as well as a brooding sense of melancholy. His scrupulous translations of Poe“s work are ranked among the best.The father of the detective novel and an innovator in the genre of science fiction, Edgar Allan Poe (1809–49) made his living as America“s first great literary critic. Today he is best remembered for his short stories and poems, haunting works of horror and mystery that remain popular around the world.