AN ESSAY ON HIS INFLUENCE

BY

GUY THORNE

AUTHOR OF

"WHEN IT WAS DARK," "THE VINTAGE OF VICE" ETC.

"Close to your hand lies a little
volume, bound in some Nile-green skin
that has been pounded with gilded
nenuphars, and smoothed with hard
ivory. It is the book that Gautier
loved, it is Baudelaire's masterpiece."
OSCAR WILDE ("Intentions").

WITH FOUR PHOTOGRAVURES

LONDON

GREENING & CO

31 ESSEX STREET, STRAND, W.C.

1915

Baudelaire

CONTENTS

THE LIFE AND INTIMATE MEMOIRS OF CHARLES BAUDELAIRE.
BY THÉOPHILE GAUTIER[1]

SELECTED POEMS DONE INTO ENGLISH VERSE BY GUY THORNE[95]

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]

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]

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]