One of the most execrated literary figures of his day, Baudelaire has emerged in the judgment of moderns as a poet who led the revolt against the Romanticists, who founded a new school of poetry, who produced verse of surpassing beauty. This portrait of Baudelaire is a sympathetic and revelatory picture of the "po te maudit"-a psycho-analytic interpretation of the life and poetry of the great French symbolist poet. His work has lived. Of all the books...