摘要：Charles Baudelaire (1821±1867) was one of the
major influences on the French Decadent
poets of the late nineteenth century whose
aesthetic principles were shared, to a large
extent, by a group of English poets and artists,
among whom was Aubrey Beardsley (1872±
1898). One of the major influences on Baudelaire
had been the American, Edgar Allan Poe
(1809±1849), in whose short stories and poems
Baudelaire had recognised a kindred spirit.
Some intriguing aspects of changing nineteenth-
century attitudes emerge from a study
of Baudelaire's 1856 translation of Poe's `The
Murders in the Rue Morgue' and Beardsley's
1893 illustration to this story.
