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]