Charles Baudelaire vs. Victor Hugo
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Charles Baudelaire
1821 – 1867
Literature
France
Symbolism
Charles-Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet, essayist, translator and art critic. His poems are described as exhibiting mastery of rhythm and rhyme, containing an exoticism inherited from the Romantics, and are based on observations of real life.
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"What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters."
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Victor Hugo
1802 – 1885
Literature
Brazil
French Romanticism
Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo was a French Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician.
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"Let us not fall into the vulgar error, which is to curse and to dishonour the age in which we live. However deep the shame of the present, whatever blows we rec…"
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