By Charles Baudelaire
In either his existence and his poetry, Charles Pierre Baudelaire driven the approved limits of his time. His dissolute bohemian existence was once as stunning to his nineteenth-century readers as his poetry. Writing in classical variety yet with brutal honesty, Baudelaire laid naked human pain, aspirations, and perversions.
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Baudelaire initially used this word as an epigraph to his poem. SISYPHE. Sisyphus, whose punishment within the underworld used to be perpetually to roll a heavy stone uphill. STERNE. Lawrence Sterne (1713–68), an English novelist a lot prominent by means of French writers of Baudelaire’s iteration. The incident of the donkey and the macaroon appears to be like in his Tristram Shandy. STEVENS, JOSEPH. Belgian painter. His Intérieur de saltimbanque encouraged poem 102, and he did provide Baudelaire a superb waistcoat. STYX. one of many rivers of the underworld; proverbially darkish and gloomy. SWEDENBORG. Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772). Swedish author, exponent of unorthodox spiritual rules, a lot learn in France within the Romantic interval. TARTUFE. Tartuffe, hypocritical valuable personality in Molière’s play Tartuffe. Proverbial identify for a hypocrite. TE DEUM. A hymn of compliment, starting Te Deum laudamus (‘We compliment Thee, o God’), often sung in ceremonies of social gathering. In five, encenser (to cense) additionally capacity to compliment fulsomely, for this reason jouer de l’encensoir, to flatter unworthy gadgets. THEOCRITUS. Greek poet (third century BC), author of idylls and inventor of the pastoral mode. THALIE. Thalia, Muse of comedy. consequently ‘prêtresse de Thalie’, an actress (in pretentious journalistic language). TIVOLI. 1. Tivoli, a small city close to Rome, recognized for the temples and villas which encompass it. 2. In fifty five, a advertisement pleasure-garden in Paris named after the city. TORNÉO. A river in Sweden. VÉNUSTRE. An illiterate pronunciation of Vénus. VESTALE. A vestal virgin (Roman history). Proverbial for his or her chastity and retired lifestyles. VEUILLOT. Louis Veuillot (1813–83), prolific Catholic journalist and polemicist, infamous for his use of slang and clichés. strangely, a pal of Baudelaire. INDEX OF TITLES and primary strains Abel et Caïn 126 A Celle qui est Trop Gaie 149 Ah! ne ralentis pas tes flammes 173 A los angeles très chère, à l. a. très belle 156 Alchimie de l. a. Douleur seventy nine Andromaque, je pense à vous! Ce petit fleuve eighty five Ange plein de gaieté, connaissez-vous l’angoisse forty five Anges revêtus d’or, de pourpre et d’hyacinthe 187 Any the place out of the area 205 Aujourd’hui l’espace est splendide 113 Au Lecteur three A une Heure du Matin 199 A une Madone sixty six Avec ses vêtements ondoyants et nacrés 25 Bientôt nous plongerons dans les froides ténèbres sixty four weird and wonderful déité, brune comme les nuits 24 Ce ne seront jamais ces beautés de vignettes sixteen C’est los angeles Mort qui console, hélas! et qui fait vivre 133 Chanson d’Après-midi sixty eight Chant d’Automne sixty four Comme un beau cadre ajoute à los angeles peinture 39 Comme un bétail pensif sur le sable couchées 114 Confession forty seven Connais-tu, comme moi, l. a. douleur savoureuse one hundred thirty five Dans les caveaux d’insondable tristesse 37 Dans les planches d’anatomie ninety eight Dans les plis sinueux des vieilles capitales ninety two Dans ma cervelle se promène fifty four De ce ciel strange et livide eighty De ce terrain que vous fouillez ninety nine De ce poor paysage 104 De Profundis Clamavi 30 De sa fourrure blonde et brune fifty six Dis-moi, ton cœur parfois s’envole-t-il, Agathe 70 Du temps que l. a. Nature en sa verve puissante 17 Epigraphe pour un Livre Condamné 169 Epilogue 186 Femmes Damnées 114 Fourmillante cité, cité pleine de rêves 89 Harmonie du Soir 50 Harpagon, qui veillait son père agonisant 162 Horreur Sympathique eighty Hymne 156 Hymne à los angeles Beauté 18 Il est de forts parfums pour qui toute matière fifty one Il me semble parfois que mon sang coule à flots 117 Ils marchent devant moi, ces Yeux pleins de lumières forty four J’ai longtemps behavioré sous de vastes portiques 14 J’aime de vos longs yeux l. a. lumière verdâtre sixty five J’aime le keepsake de ces époques nues 7 J’ai plus de souvenirs que si j’avais mille ans seventy four Je n’ai pas oublié, voisine de l. a. ville 102 Je n’ai pas pour maîtresse une lionne illustre 183 Je suis belle, ô mortels!