The Arcades Project - Operi

On allegory: "L'Amour et Ie crane: Vieux Cul-de-Iampe," ""Allegorie," "Unc Gravure
fantastique." [J55,7J
... The sky was suave, the sea serene; for me
from now on everything was hloody and hlack
-the worse for me-and as if in a shroud
my heart lay buried in this allegory.
'''Un Voyage a Cythere. "301
"Steeling my nerves to play a hero's part" ("Les Sept Vieillards"). 302
"Les Sept Vieillards" on the subject of eternal sameness. Chorus girls.
[J55,8]
[J55,9]
[J55,10]
I..Iist of allegories: Art, Love, Pleasure, Repentance, Ennui, Destruction, the Now,
Time, Death, Pear, Sorrow, Evil, Truth, Hope, Vengeance, Hate, Respect, Jealousy,
Thoughts. [J55,1l]
"L'Irremediable"-catalogue of emblems. [J55,12]
The allegories stand for that which the commodity makes of the experiences
people have in this century. [J55,13]
The wish to sleep. '''I hate all passion, and wit grates on me" CSonnet
d'automne"}. :10:1 [J55,14]
"A sinuous fleece . . . / . . . which in darkness rivals you, 0 Night, / deep and
spreading starless Night!" (,,'Les Promesses d'un visage").;w" [J55,15]
"The dizzying stairs that swallow up his soul" ("Sur Le l'asse en prison d'Eugene
Delacl'oix").:l()5 [J55,16]
The affinity Baudelaire felt for late Latin literature is probably counected with his
passion for the allegorical art that had its first flowering in the High Middle Ages.
[J55,17]
To attempt to judge Baudelaire's intellectual powers on the basis of his philo­
sophical digressions, as Jules Lemaltre has done,'o6 is ill-advised. Baudelaire was a
bad philosopher, a better theorist in matters of art; but only as a brooder was he
incomparable. He has the stereotypy in motif characteristic of the brooder, the
imperturbability in warding off disturbance, the readiness each time to put the
image at the beck and call of the thought. "The brooder is at home among
allegories. [J55a,1]
The attraction which a few basic situations continually exerted on Baudelaire
belongs to the complex of symptoms associated with melancholy. He appears to