| Summary: | Madness, folly, the bizarre and excess are types of extravagance formulated in the Renaissance and the Baroque. While the notion of extravagance fades away after those periods, the poet Charles Baudelaire revives it in several poetic texts, especially in prose poetry. The etymological resonance of wandering makes itself felt in Baudelaire's writing. Extravagance enters the aesthetics of Paris Spleen, particularly in the portrayal of the arts and in the artist's vocation. This essay proposes to explore the poetics of extravagance that takes shape in fictional characters, poetic images, and the dramatizing of aesthetics in several prose poems.
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