[Gutenberg 47075] • Charles Baudelaire, His Life

CONTENTS

THE LIFE AND INTIMATE MEMOIRS OF CHARLES BAUDELAIRE.

BY THÉOPHILE GAUTIER1

SELECTED POEMS DONE INTO ENGLISH VERSE BY GUY THORNE95

I. EXOTIC PERFUME 95

II. THE MURDERER'S WINE 97

III. MUSIC 101

IV. THE GAME 103

V. THE FALSE MONK 105

VI. AN IDEAL OF LOVE 106

VII. THE SOUL OF WINE 108

VIII. THE INVOCATION 110

IX. THE CAT 111

X. THE GHOST 112

XI. THE LITANIES OF SATAN 113

XII. ILL-STARRED! 116

XIII. LINES WRITTEN ON THE FLY-LEAF

OF AN EXECRATED BOOK 118

XIV. THE END OF THE DAY 119

LITTLE POEMS IN PROSE, DONE INTO ENGLISH. BY GUY THORNE 122

I. VENUS AND THE FOOL 123

II. THE DESIRE TO PAINT 124

III. EACH MAN HIS OWN CHIMÆRA 125

IV. INTOXICATION 126

V. THE MARKSMAN 127

CORRESPONDENCE OF BAUDELAIRE 131

LETTERS TO SAINTE-BEUVE (1856-1866) 131

LETTERS TO FLAUBERT (1857-1862) 161

SOME REMARKS ON BAUDELAIRE'S INFLUENCE UPON

MODERN POETRY AND THOUGHT. BY GUY THORNE 169

APPENDIX 201

INDEX 205

ILLUSTRATIONS

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE (Frontispiece)

THÉOPHILE GAUTIER

L'AUTEUR DES FLEURS DU MAL

(A bitter caricature of Baudelaire, unsigned. Upon the original from

which this copy has been made the following line from "Les Litanies

de Satan" is scrawled:

"O Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère."

(From the collection of Ernest Taylor, Esq.)

MIGNON ASPIRANT AU CIEL

THE LIFE AND INTIMATE MEMOIRS OF CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

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