The Arcades Project - Operi

"He is always polite to what is ugly." Jules Laforgue, Melanges posthumes (Paris,
1903), p. 114.69 [JI0a,3]
Rogel' Allard-in Baudelaire et "l'Esprit nouveau," (Paris, 1918), p. 8-compares
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Baudelaire's poems to Madame Sabatier with Ronsard's poems to Helene.
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"Two writers profoundly influenced Baudelaire, or rather two books . ... One is
the delicious Diable amoureux, by Cazotte; the other, Dideroes La Religieuse. To
the first, many of the poems owe their restless frenzy ... ; with Diderot, Baudelaire
gathers the somber violets ofLesbos." At this point, in a note, a citation from
Apollinaire's commentary to his edition of Baudelaire's Oeuvres poetiques: 'One
would probably not go wrong in taking Cazotte as the hyphen that had the
honor of uniting, in . .. Baudelaire, the spirit of the Revolution's writers with that
of Edgar Poe." Roger Allard, Baudelaire et "l'Esprit nouveau" (Paris, 1918),
pp. 9-10. [JIOa,5]
"The flavor of late autumn ... which Baudelaire savored . .. in the literary decomposition
of low Latin." Roger Allard, Baudelaire et "I 'Esprit nouveau" (Paris,
1918), p. 14. [Jll,l]
"Baudelaire . .. is the most musical of French poets, along with Racine and Verlaine.
But whereas Racine plays only the violin, Baudelaire plays the whole orchestra."
Andre Suares, Preface to Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du 11wl (Paris,
1933), pp. xxxiv-xxxv. [Jll,2]
"If Baudelaire is supremely contained, as no one since Dante has been, it is because
he always concentrates on the inner life, as Dante focnsed on dogma." Andre
Suares, Preface to Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal (Paris, 1933), p. xxxviii.
[Jll,3]
Les Fleurs du mal is the Inferno of the nineteenth century. But Baudelaire's despair
carries him infinitely beyond the wrath of Dante." Andre Suares, Preface to
Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal (Paris, 1933), p. xiii. [Jll,4]
"There is no artist in verse snperior to Baudelaire." Andre Suares, Preface to
Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal (Paris, 1933), p. xxiii. [Jll,5]
Apollinaire: "Baudelaire is the scion of LacIos and Edgar Poe." Cited in Roger
AliaI'd, Baudelaire et "I 'Esprit nouveau" (Paris, 1918), p. 8. [Jll,6]
The "Choix de maximes consolantes sur I' amour" contains an excursus on ugliness (first published March 3, 1846, in Le
Corsaire-Satan). The beloved has contracted smallpox and suffered scars, which
from then on are the lover's delight: "You run a grave risk, if your pockmarked
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