On The Relationships Between Baudelaier's Aesthetic Thoughts With Romanticism

Baudelaier was a poet who lived in the period when "the great tradition has disappeared, but the newly one is not yet to come", and so can he be called a bridge connected the new-and-old tradition. Facing with the beginning of the modern industry society and the spring-up of the modern metropolis, Baudelaier on the one hand strongly desired to break through the old tradition, and on the other hand he was blind to the full potential of the modernity. He held a nostalgic attitude to the primarily well-developed romanticism, and for so his aesthetic thoughts was formed on the basis of the former romantic resources. So we can say, Baudelarer attempted to terminate the romanticism but actually continue it. This article tries to begin with the unique correspondence which is the basis of his aesthetic thoughts, emphasizes the analyses of the uniqueness of correspondence, and analyses Baudelaier's inheritance continuance and reform of romanticism through the exhumation of correspondence's nature view, imagination, and beauty-in-the-evil. After the analyses, we not only have a clear acknowledge of the relationship between Baudelaier's aesthetic thoughts with romanticism, but also have a better understanding of Baudelaier's unique historical attribution to the literature in the transmutation and its status.