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