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Charles BaudelaireEssay Preview: Charles BaudelaireReport this essayCharles Baudelaire: Romantic, Parnassian, and SymbolistOften compared to the American poet Edgar Allen Poe, the French poet Charles Baudelaire has become well-known for his fascination with death, melancholy, and evil and his otherwise eccentric yet contemplative style. These associations have deemed him as a “patron saint of modernist poetry”.