CONTENTS
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE： A STUDY 1
POEMS IN PROSE
I 34II 36III 37IV 40V 42VI 43VII 45VIII 48IX 51X 53XI 58XII 59
POEMS IN PROSE
DEDICATION TO ARSNE HOUSSAYE 63 A JESTER 65THE DOG AND THE VIAL 66THE WILD WOMAN AND THE COQUETTE 67 THE OLD MOUNTEBANK 70THE CLOCK 73A HEMISPHERE IN A TRESS 75 THE PLAYTHING OF THE POOR 77 THE GIFTS OF THE FAIRIES 79 SOLITUDE 82PROJECTS 84THE LOVELY DOROTHEA 86 THE COUNTERFEIT MONEY 88 THE GENEROUS PLAYER 90THE ROPE TO EDWARD MANET 94 CALLINGS 98A THOROUGHBRED 102 THE MIRROR 103THE HARBOR 104 MISTRESSES'' PORTRAITS 105
SOUP AND THE CLOUDS 110 THE LOSS OF A HALO 111 MLLE. BISTOURY 112LET US FLAY THE POOR 116GOOD DOGS TO MR. JOSEPH STEVENS 119
LITTLE POEMS IN PROSE
EVERY MAN HIS CHIMRA 125 VENUS AND THE FOOL 127 ALREADY! 129THE DOUBLE CHAMBER 131AT ONE O''CLOCK IN THE MORNING 134 THE CONFITEOR OF THE ARTIST 136 THE THYRSUS TO FRANZ LISZT 138 THE MARKSMAN 140THE SHOOTING-RANGE AND THE CEMETERY 141THE DESIRE TO PAINT 143 THE GLASS-VENDOR 145 THE WIDOWS 148THE TEMPTATIONS; OR, EROS, PLUTUS,
AND GLORY 151
THE FLOWERS OF EVIL
THE DANCE OF DEATH 157 THE BEACONS 160THE SADNESS OF THE MOON 162 THE BALCONY 163THE SICK MUSE 165 THE VENAL MUSE 166 THE EVIL MONK 167 THE TEMPTATION 168 THE IRRPARABLE 170 A FORMER LIFE 172DON JUAN IN HADES 173 THE LIVING FLAME 174 CORRESPONDENCES 175 THE FLASK 176 REVERSIBILITY 178THE EYES OF BEAUTY 180 SONNET OF AUTUMN 181THE REMORSE OF THE DEAD 182
THE GHOST 183TO A MADONNA 184 THE SKY 186 SPLEEN 187THE OWLS 188 BIEN LOIN D''ICI 189CONTEMPLATION 190TO A BROWN BEGGAR-MAID 191 THE SWAN 194THE SEVEN OLD MEN 196 THE LITTLE OLD WOMEN 198 A MADRIGAL OF SORROW 201 MIST AND RAIN 203SUNSET 204THE CORPSE 205 AN ALLEGORY 207 THE ACCURSED 208 LA BEATRICE 210THE SOUL OF WINE 212 THE WINE OF LOVERS 214 THE DEATH OF LOVERS 215THE DEATH OF THE POOR 216 GYPSIES TRAVELLING 217
FRANCISC ME LAUDES 218 A LANDSCAPE 220THE VOYAGE 222
FROM THE FLOWERS OF EVIL
BENEDICTION 231 ILL LUCK 234 BEAUTY 235 IDEAL LOVE 236HYMN TO BEAUTY 237 EXOTIC FRAGRANCE 239 XXVIII SONNET 240 MUSIC 241THE SPIRITUAL DAWN 242 THE FLAWED BELL 243
THREE POEMS FROM BAUDELAIRE
I 247II 249
III 251
INTIMATE PAPERS FROM THE UNPUBLISHED WORKS OF BAUDELAIRE
ROCKETS MY HEART LAID BARE 257 INTIMATE PAPERS ROCKETS 259MY HEART LAID BARE 274
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PREFACE
n presenting to the American public this collection in English of perhaps the mostinfluential French poet of the last seventy years, I consider it essential to explain the conditions under which the work has been done.Baudelaire has written poems that will, in all likelihood, live while poetry is used as a medium of expression, and the great influence that he has exercised on English and continental literature is mainly due to the particular quality of his style, his way of feeling or his method of thought. He is a master of analytical power, and in his highest ecstasy of emotional expression, this power can readily be recognized. In his own quotation he gave forth his philosophy on this point："The more art would aim at being philosophically clear, the more will it degrade itself and return to the childish hieroglyphic： on the other hand, the more art detaches itself from teaching, the more will it attain to pure disinterested beauty.... Poetry, under pain of death or decay, cannot assimilate Herself to science or ethics. She has not Truth for object, she has only Herself." What appears at first glance in the preceding phrases to be a contradiction is really a confirmation of Baudelaire''s conception of the highest understanding of sthetic principle. Baudelaire''s ideal beauty is tempered with mystery and sadness, the real too, but never the commonplace.
2 POEMS IN PROSE
No poet has brought so many new ideasinsensation into a literary style. Intellectually he is all sensation, though he seldom degenerates into abstract sentimentality. This sum totality of the power of absorbing external sensation is Baudelaire. From the effect of his objectivity his art expresses itself as if solely subjective. This condition of mind and art makes him most difficult to translate into another language, in particular, English.This collection of his verse and prose is gathered from those experiments in translation which I think will most effectively convey to the English reader those qualities that made Baudelaire what he is. There are numerous translations from Baudelaire in English but most of them may be dismissed as being seldom successful. Mr. Arthur Symons'' translation of some of the prose poems is a most beautiful adventure in psychological sensations, effective though not always accurate in interpretation. Mr. F. P. Sturm''s effort with the Flowers of Evil and the Prose Poems is always accurate, sometimes inspired, and often a tour de force of translation. Mr. W. J. Robertson''s translations from the Flowers of Evil is the most successful of all. He maintains with amazing facility all the subtlety, beauty and one might also say the perfume of Baudelaire''s verse. Mr. Shipley does a most meritorious work in his translations from the prose poems, and the reader will be everlastingly grateful to him for his fine painstaking translation of the Intimate Papers from Baudelaire''s unpublished novels.There are few interesting or valuable essays on the mind and art of Baudelaire in English, but the reader will find the following critical appreciations to be of inestimable use in the study of the poet："The Influence of Baudelaire"： G. Turquet-Milnes Constable： 1913; "The Baudelaire Legend"： James Huneker Egoists： Scribner''s： 1909; and Thophile Gautier''s essay on Baudelaire, of which an
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