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Title: Charles Baudelaire : his life
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Gautier, Théophile, 1811-1872 Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867. Poems. English. Selections Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867. Petis poëmes en prose. English Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867. Correspondence. English. Selections Thorne, Guy, 1876-1923. Some remarks on Baudelaire's influence upon modern poetry and thought
Subjects: Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867
Publisher: New York : Brentano's
Contributing Library: The Centre for 19th Century French Studies - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Ottawa

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ebruary, 1862. My dear Friend, M. Sandeau was charming, his wife wascharming, and I really believe that I was as charm-ing as they were, since we all held a concert inyour honour, so harmonious that it was like averitable trio performed by consummate artists. 166 CHARLES BAUDELAIRE As for my affairs, Sandeau reproached me fortaking him unawares. I ought to have seen himsooner. However, he will speak for me to someof his friends at the Academy, And perhaps—perhaps, said he, ** I shall be able to snatch someProtestant votes in the ballot for the Lacordairechair. It is everything I desire. Seriously, Mme. Sandeaus enthusiasm is great,and in her you have an advocate, a more thanzealous panegyrist. That greatly excited myrivalry, and I succeeded in finding some reasonsfor eulogy that she had forgotten. Here is Sandeaus letter. Here is a little paperwhich will perhaps interest you. Yours always. Hope to see you soon. SOME REMARKS ON BAUDELAIRES INFLUENCE UPON MODERN POETRY AND THOUGHT 167
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^/^y///// f/.)///f///// /r/^ 1^/// SOME REMARKS ON BAUDELAIRES IN-FLUENCE UPON MODERN POETRYAND THOUGHT In his essay called Pen, Pencil, and Poison Oscar Wilde remarks : * But had the man worna costume and spoken a language different fromour own, had he lived in Imperial Rome, or at thetime of the Italian Renaissance, or in Spain inthe seventeenth century, or in any land or in anycentury but this century and this land, we shouldbe quite able to arrive at a perfectly unprejudicedestimate of his position and value ; and he alsosays : Of course, he is far too close to our own timefor us to be able to form any purely artistic judg-ment about him/ It was only a year after the death of CharlesBaudelaire that Gautier wrote the magnificent life-study of the poet, the English translation of whichforms part of this volume, and the monographseems to give the lie direct to Wildes assertion.There is nothing finer in French literature, moredelicately critical, more vivid in its personal pictures,mo

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