Bendito Baudelaire

Abstract

The welcoming of Baudelaire in Brazil has passed, in the 1930s, through a period of academic consecration, in the words of Antonio Candido. Our purpose here is to reflect on the way how Baudelaire became, along the 20th century, in Brazil, an ac- ademic and conventional poet, and in what measure that appropriation of Baudelaire illuminates Brazilian poetry in the mid-20th century.