CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

HIS LIFE

BY

THÉOPHILE GAUTIER

TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH, WITH SELECTIONS

FROM HIS POEMS, "LITTLE POEMS IN PROSE,"

AND LETTERS TO SAINTE-BEUVE AND FLAUBERT

AND

AN ESSAY ON HIS INFLUENCE

BY

GUY THORNE

AUTHOR OF

"WHEN IT WAS DARK," "THE VINTAGE OF VICE"ETC.


"Close to your hand lies a little
volume, bound in some Nile-green skin
that has been pounded with gilded
nenuphars, and smoothed with hard
ivory. It is the book that Gautier
loved, it is Baudelaire's masterpiece."
OSCAR WILDE ("Intentions").


WITH FOUR PHOTOGRAVURES
LONDON
GREENING & CO
31 ESSEX STREET, STRAND, W.C.
1915

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Baudelaire


CONTENTS

THE LIFE AND INTIMATE MEMOIRS OF CHARLES BAUDELAIRE.
BY THÉOPHILE GAUTIER1

SELECTED POEMS DONE INTO ENGLISH VERSE BY GUY THORNE95

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I.EXOTIC PERFUME95
II.THE MURDERER'S WINE97
III.MUSIC101
IV.THE GAME103
V.THE FALSE MONK105
VI.AN IDEAL OF LOVE106
VII.THE SOUL OF WINE108
VIII.THE INVOCATION110
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