Barrie's "Peter Pan, " and two songs by Charles Martin Loeffler (1861-1935) to poems by Charles Baudelaire and Paul Verlaine.

WSJ: The First Sounds of Spring | Savannah Music Festival | By Barrymore Laurence Scherer

Absinthe inspired poets and artists, like Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire and Edouard Manet - and has given regulators headaches for decades.

BBC: Europe

Rather than depicting a specific location, Ensor offers a telling amalgam and carnivalesque inversion of an entire genre that, as articulated by the French poet Charles Baudelaire, celebrated the spectacle of modern urban life.

WSJ: A Macabre Kingdom of Masks | James Ensor | Christ's Entry Into Brussels in 1889 | By Mary Tompkins Lewis

Drawings of James McNeill Whistler, Charles Baudelaire and Max Beerbohm, followed by 20th-century photographs of Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright and Andy Warhol, make the case for dandyism as an aesthetic stance, the domain of artists.

WSJ: Beau Brummell and His Heirs | Men of Fashion | RISD Museum | By Laura Jacobs