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42. Baudelaire, "The Painter of Modern Ljft,"p. 21 ("'The Painter of Modern Life").
43. Ibid., p. 24.
44. Ibid., p. 32.
45. Ibid., p. 40.
46. Baudelaire, Selected U'h'tings Oll Art and Literature) trans. P. E. Charvet (1972; rpt.
New York: Penguin, 1992), p. 435.
47. Baudelaire as a Literal)' Cn'tic pp. 296-297 ("The Painter of Modern Life," section 4,
"Modernity"). Baudelaire here anticipates Nietzsche's critique of the antiquarian in
the second of the Unuitgemarse BetracMungen: Vom Nutr..en und Nachteil der Historie for
das Leben . In the sentence
that follows dus quotation from Baudelaire, BCrYamin delineates a dialectical process
that is somewhat blurred in translation: the stamp of time that, literally, "impresses
itself into )) antiquity (sich in sie eindriickt) brings out of it {treibt . .. aUJ ihr hervo1­
that is, brings into relief-the allegorical configuration.
48. Baudelaire as a Literary Oitie, p. 296; and "The Painter of Modern Life," pp. 14, 16.
'ISpleen et ideal" is the first book of Les Fleurs du mal.
49. Baudelaire, "The Painter a/Modern Ljft," pp. 29, 12.
50. Ibid., pp. 8, 66.
51. Ibid., pp. 10, 11.
52. Ibid., p. 48.
53. Ibid., p. 3.
54. Baudelaire, Les Fleu," du mal, trans. Richard Howard (Boston: Godine, 1982), p. 77.
55. Baudelaire, "Tile Painter 0/ Modern L.ife/J p. 32.
56. Ibid., p. 14. SeeJ6a,2.
57. Selected Leltm of Charles Baudelaire, pp. 79-80. Baudelaire had received a copy of
Alphonse To ussenel's book L'Esprit des betes.
58. Baudelaire's unsuccessful effort to gain membership in the Academie Fram,;:aise at the
end of 1861 entailed mandatory visits to each of the forty Academicians. He was
received by about half of them before he withdrew his application.
59. Selected Leiters ofCharies Baudelaire, p. 210 (November 13, 1864, to Ancelle) .
60. Victor Hugo, Poems) trans. anonymous (Boston: Harcourt Bindery, 189?), pp. 190,
192. IlLes Metamorphoses du vampire" (Metamorphoses of the Vampire) and Illes
Petites Vieilles" (!be Little Old Women) are poems in L(s Flew's du mal. For Athalie's
dream of her dead mother,Jezabel, see scene 5 of Act 2 of Racine's Athali( (1691).
61. Jules Laforgue, Selected f/Vritings) trans. William Jay Smith (New York: Grove Press,
1956), p. 212. References are to Baudelaire's poems "Le Balcon" and "Le Serpent qui
danse," in Les Fleurs du mal.
62. Laforgue, Selected Wiitinp, p. 213.
63. Ibid.
64. Ibid., pp. 215-211. Citations from Les Fleu," du mal (trans. Howard), p. 173 ("Medita­
tion"), p. 14 ("Elevation"), p. 82 ("'Dle Clock"), p. 87 ("Parisian Landscape").
65. Baudelaire: A Self Portrait, ed. and trans. Lois Boe Hyslop and Francis E. Hyslop,Jr.
(London: Oxford University Press, 1957), p. 51 ("Pauvre Belgique").
66. Baudelaire, "My Heart Laid Bare,"p. 177 ("My Heart Laid Bare").
67. Baudelaire, ne Complete Verse, trans. Francis Scarfe (London: Anvil, 1986), pp. 326-
321.
68. Laforgue, Selected Wi'itings, p. 211.
69. Ibid., p. 213.
70. Baudelaire, Intimate Journals, trans. Christopher Isherwood (1930; rpt. Westport,
Com.: Hyperion, 1978), pp. 113-114.