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quotes, in connection with this, Baudelaire's formula, "The imagination, t.hat
queen of the faculties," and concedes that the poet was unaware of the true state of
affairs (1'. 517).211 [J43,S]
'"The seeming inappropriateness of terms, which will irritate some critics so much,
that skillful impreciseness of which Racine already made such masterly use, . ..
that air-space, that interval, hetween image and idea, hetween the word and the
thing, is just where there is room for the poetic emotion to come and dwell."
A. Gide, "Baudelaire et M. Faguet," Nouvelle Revue f"anaise, 2 (Novemher 1,
1910), 1'. 512.212 [J43,6]
""Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive
generations a nourishment constantly renewed; for every generation arrives on
the scene with its own particular hunger." A. Gide, "Baudelaire et M. Faguet,"
Nou.velle Revu.efrangaise, 2 (November 1, 1910), p. 503.'l" [J43,7]
Faguet complains of the lack of movement in Baudelaire, and Gide, making reference
to Baudelaire's "'I hate all movement" and to the iterative poems, remarks:
"As if the greatest novelty of his art had not heen to immobilize his poems, to
develop them in depth!" Gide, "'Baudelaire et M. Faguet," Nouvelle Revue
frangaise, 2 (November 1, 1910), 1'1'. 507, 50S.HI [J43,8l
Of the line, "Limp arms . . . ," Proust says, in the preface to
Tendres Stocks , p. 15, that it sounds like something from Racine's
Britanniclls.215-The heraldic character of the image! [J43a,1]
Very astute judgment by Proust on Sainte-Beuve's behavior toward Baudelaire,
in the preface to Tendres Stocks.21G [J43a,2]
Of those '"tunes ... granting a kind of glory to the crowd/' Proust remarks « ""A
Propos de Baudelaire," Nouvelle Revue frunqaise [June 1, 1921],> p. 646): ""It
would seem impossihle to better that.. " 217 [J43a,3]
""1 have not had time to speak here of the part played in Baudelaire's work hy
ancient cities, or of the scarlet note they strike, here and there, in the fabric of his
poetry." Marcel Proust, ""A Propos de Baudelaire," Nouvelle Revue fnmaise
[J43a,4]
(June 1, 1921), p. 656.2lll
Proust thinks that the concluding lines of both ""Le Voyage" fall flat. He is offended hy the extreme simplicity of
these endings. 2 II) [J43a,5]
"'A capital is not wholly necessary to man." Senancour, Obennann, ed. Fasquelle
(Paris