Table of Contents

1. Sketches of Baudelaire

Cat, Hindoo, Yankee, Episcopal, Alchemist Selection from Egoists: A Book of Super Men by James Huneker.

A Gallic Byron Selection from James Huneker’s Introduction to the first Modern Library edition of The Poems and Prose-Poems of Charles Baudelaire.

Baudelaire’s Prose Selection from “Notes on French Romantics” by Lafcadio Hearn.

First Encounter: Gautier meets Baudelaire Selection from Charles Baudelaire by Theophile Gautier.

2. Reading I

“Baudelaire” by Arthur Symons

Illustration: Photograph of Charles Baudelaire by Fèlix Nadar, 1855.

3. Jeanne Duval: The Woman Who was Fanfarlo

The Rebellious Angel Selection from Baudelaire: A Study by Arthur Symons.

Perfume Selection from Egoists: A Book of Super Men by James Huneker.

A Specter of the East Selection from an 1899 essay “Charles Baudelaire by W.R. Creland.

4. Reading II

“The Human Baudelaire” by Havelock Ellis

Illustration: Sketch of Jeanne Duval by Charles Baudelaire.

5. Poems for Jeanne Duval: Selections from Les Fleur du Mal

The Balcony

Exotic Perfume

To a Creole Lady

La Chevelure

A Carcass

Illustration: Baudelaire’s Mistress, Reclining by Édouard Manet, 1862.