Charles Baudelaire was the foremost poet of modern French Literature. Known for revolutionizing the tone and content of modern lyric poetry, he was the author of The Flowers of Evil, Paris Spleen, and Artificial Paradises, as well as the epochal essay, “The Painter of Modern Life.”
Nathan Brown is Professor of English and Canada Research Chair in Poetics at Concordia University, where he is founding director of the Centre for Expanded Poetics. He is the author of Baudelaire’s Shadow: An Essay on Poetic Determination (2021), Rationalist Empiricism: A Theory of Speculative Critique (2021), and The Limits of Fabrication: Materials Science, Materialist Poetics (2017).
