CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

HIS LIFE

BY

THÉOPHILE GAUTIER

TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH, WITH SELECTIONS

FROM HIS POEMS, "LITTLE POEMS IN PROSE,"

AND LETTERS TO SAINTE-BEUVE AND FLAUBERT

AND

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 GAUTIER1

SELECTED POEMS DONE INTO ENGLISH VERSE BY GUY THORNE95

	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) public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@47075@[email protected]#Page_131" class="pginternal"