Time for Baudelaire

This volume of Yale French Studies is devoted to the work of Baudelaire, who, more than any other poet, inaugurated the era of modernity. The contributors to this issue reflect on the specific ways in which poetry – and perhaps poetry alone – allows a historical concept like modernity to become accessible to us in the first place. They consider in various terms what time means in Baudelaire's work and what time can do, exploring the relationship between his writings and the moment in which they were composed.