Baudelaire In The Modern Western Aesthetics And Spirit Transformation Vision Research

Baudelaire, an important poet and literary critic in the western modern literature history, lived in the transition from traditional aesthetics to modern one. His aesthetic thought and literary creation both reflect and impulse this transition. Baudelaire's complicated aesthetic thought was an extremely modern and unique system, and had a far-reaching influence on the modern aesthetics and art. Although there were a great deal of research which concentrated on the interpretation of his works and symbolist poetry, no special articles or books written for this problem systematically. This thesis intends to discuss Baudelaire's aesthetic modernity, theory of appreciating the ugly and theory of correspondence in the background of 19th century, and reveals the effect of his aesthetic thought on the change of western modern aesthetics.