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our time and that of the time of Lucan . ... In a country where literature governs the minds of men, and even politics . . . lends its voice to everything progressive, ... criticism . .. is . .. a task at once literary and moral." D. Nisard, Etudes de moeurs et de critique sur les poetes latins de la decadence (Paris, 1849), vol. 1, pp. x, xiv. [J83,!] On the feminine ideal-"ghastly thin"-of Baudelaire: "But it is essentially the modern woman here, the French woman of the period preceding the invention of the hicycle." Pierre Caume, "Causeries sur Baudelaire, La Nou.velle Revue (Paris, 1899), vol. 119, p. 669. [J83,2] Nisard denounces, as a sign of' decadence in Phaedrus, "a continual, affected employment of the abstract for the concrete . ... Thus, instead of a long neck, he says: 'length of neck,' colli longitudo." D. Nisard, Etudes de moeu.rs et de critique su.,. les poetes latins de la decadence (Paris, 1849), vol. 1, pp. 45. [J83,3] On the question of the declining birthrate and of harrenness: "There is no hopeful expectation of' the future, nor any elan, without some guiding idea, some goaL" Jules Romains, Cela depend de vons (Paris

v . ] .. Allegory, as the sign that is pointedly set off against its meaning, has its place in art as the antithesis to the beautiful appearance in which signifier and signified flow into each other. Dissolve this brittleness of allegory, and it forfeits all authority. That, in fact, is what happens with genre. It introduces "life" into allegories, which in turn suddenly wither like flowers. Sternberger has touched on this state of affairs (Panorama , p. 66): "the allegory that has become a semblance of life, that has given up its lastingness and its rigorous validity for the red pottage" oflife,458justly appears as a creation of the genre. In Jugendstil, a retrogressive process seems to set in. Allegory regains its brittleness. [J83a,3] On the foregoing remarks by Lotze: the idler, the flilneur, who no longer has any understanding of production, seeks to become an expert on the market (on prices). [J83a,4] 'The chapters 'Persecution' and 'Murder' in Apollinaire's Poete assassine contain the famous description of a pogrom against poets. Publishing houses arc stormed, books of poems thrown on the fire, poets beaten to death. And the same scenes are taking place at the same time all over the world. In Aragon, Imagination,' in anticipation of such horrors, marshals its forces for a last crusade,·" Walter Benjamin, "Del' Siirrealismus/' Die literarische Welt, 5, no. 7 (February 15, 1929).459 [J84,1] "It is hardly a coincidence that the century which has long been that of the strongest poetic langnage, the nineteenth century, has also been that of decisive progress in the sciences:' Jean-Richard Bloch, "Langage d'utilite, langage poetique" (Enryclopedieftan,aise, voL 16 [16-50], p. 13). Indicate how tl,e forces of poetic inspiration, having been driven from their earlier positions by science, were compelled to make inroads into the commodity world. [J84,2] On the question raised by J .-R. Bloch, the question of the development of science and of poetic language, Chenier's (,Invention" : All the arts conjoin, and human science Could not extend the bounds of its alliance Without enlarging thus the scope for verse. What long travail to win the universe! A new Cybele and a hundred different worlds befall Our J asons first delivered from the ocean's thrall: What a wealth of worthy scenes, of images sublime, Born of those great subjects reserved for our time! [J84,3] On "Les Sept Vieillards:' The very fact that this poem stands isolated within Baudelaire's oeuvre fortifies the assumption that it occupies a key position there. If this position has remained UlIDoticed until now, this may have to do with the

our time and that of the time of Lucan . ... In a country where literature governs<br />

the minds of men, and even politics . . . lends its voice to everything progressive,<br />

... criticism . .. is . .. a task at once literary and moral." D. Nisard, Etudes<br />

de moeurs et de critique sur les poetes latins de la decadence (Paris, 1849), vol. 1,<br />

pp. x, xiv. [J83,!]<br />

On the feminine ideal-"ghastly thin"-of Baudelaire: "But it is essentially the<br />

modern woman here, the French woman of the period preceding the invention of<br />

the hicycle." Pierre Caume, "Causeries sur Baudelaire, La Nou.velle Revue<br />

(Paris, 1899), vol. 119, p. 669. [J83,2]<br />

Nisard denounces, as a sign of' decadence in Phaedrus, "a continual, affected<br />

employment of the abstract for the concrete . ... Thus, instead of a long neck, he<br />

says: 'length of neck,' colli longitudo." D. Nisard, Etudes de moeu.rs et de critique<br />

su.,. les poetes latins de la decadence (Paris, 1849), vol. 1, pp. 45. [J83,3]<br />

On the question of the declining birthrate and of harrenness: "<strong>The</strong>re is no hopeful<br />

expectation of' the future, nor any elan, without some guiding idea, some goaL"<br />

Jules Romains, Cela depend de vons (Paris

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