The Arcades Project - Operi

On Joseph de Maistre: "To the pretensions and the insolence of metaphysics, he
responded with the historical." J. Barbey d'Aurevilly, Joseph de Maistre, Blanc
de Saint-Bonnet, Lacordair-e, Gratry, Caro (Paris, 1910), p. 9. [J41,4]
"Some, like Baudelaire, . .. identified the demon, staggered but reoriented themselves,
and once more honored God. It would nonetheless be unjust to expect from
these precursors a surrender of the human faculties as complete as that required,
for example, in the sort of mysterious dawn it seems we have begun to live at
present." Stanislas Fumet, Notre Baudelaire [series entitled Le Roseau d'or, vol.
8] (Paris, 1926), p. iii. [J41,5]
"This great poetic success thus represents-if we add to these 1,500 copies the
print-run of 1,000, plus the overruns from the first edition-a sum total of 2,790
copies maximum in circulation. What other poet of our day, except Victor Hugo,
could boast of such a demand for his work?" A. de la Fineliere and Georges
Descaux, Charles Baudelaire [series entitled Essais de bibliographie contemporaine,
vol. 1] (Paris, 1868). Note on the second edition of Les Fleurs du mal.
[J41,6]
Poe: "Cyrano de Bergerac become a pupil of the astronomer Arago"-Journal des
Goncourt, July 16, 1856.zo3_"If Edgar Poe dethroned Walter Scott and Merimee,
if realism and bohemianism triumphed all down the line, if certain poems about
which I have nothing to say (for fairness bids me be silent) were taken seriously by
... honest and well-intentioned men, then this would no longer he decadence but
an orgy." Pontmartin, Le Spectateur, September 19, 1857; cited in Leon Lemonnier,
Edgar Poe et la critUJuefranqaise de 1845 a 1875 (Paris, 1928), pp. 187, 214.
[J41a,1]
On allegory: " Limp arms, like weapons dropped by one who £iees. "201 [J41a,2]
Swinburne appropriates for himself the thesis that art has nothing to do with
morality. [J41a,3]
"Les Fleurs du mal are a cathedral." Ernest Raynaud, Ch. Baudelaire (Paris,
1922), p. 305 (citing GOllzague de Reynold, Charles Baudelaire). [J41a,4]
" Baudelaire frets and torments himself in producing the least word . ... For him,
art 'is a duel in which the artist shrieks with terror before being overcome. "'205
Ernest Raynaud, Ch. Baudelaire (Paris, 1922), pp. 317-318. [J41a,5]
Raynaud recognizes the incompatibility of Baudelaire and Gautier. He devotes a
long chapter to this (pp. 310-345). [J41a,6]
"Baudelaire submitted to the requirements of . .. buccaneer editors who exploited
the vanity of socialites, amateurs, and novices, and accepted manuscripts