... shelf. CHESTERW. OBUCHOWSKI University of Connecticut Baudelaire devant ses contemporains. Textes recueillis et publiCs par W. T. BANDYand CLAUDEPICHOIS. Monaco: Editions du Rocher, 1957. Pp. 347. 890 frs. Baudelaire: A Self...

...Richard A. Kaye Decadence and the Reinvention of Modernism . By Sherry Vincent . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2015 . xi + 333 pp. The Decadent Republic of Letters: Taste, Politics, and Cosmopolitan Community from Baudelaire to Beardsley . By Potolsky Matthew...

... CItant une des plus galvaudees de toute l’ceuvre de Baudelaire, il peut paraitre puCIri1 de la reproduire encore une fois. I1 ne semble pas cependant qu’on ait tenu compte de tout l’enseignement qu’elle com por te. *l‘hc rcscarch for this paper was carried out with support from...

...” of quotations is rarely “citus,” and it is not always evident whether the statements are those of the poet or the critic. The central thesis-that Baudelaire passed froni a diabolical state of “tlandyistn” to a condition of saint- Lirrliiae l? Simpsoit 109 hood, from...

... University Press, 1943. Pp. vii + 264. $3.00. Baudelaire, as a critic, seems to have had the perfect quality of eclecticism, consciously taking from many sources what he found to be true and adapting it in a purely personal, and, finally, unobtru- sive way. It is foolish to think of the term...

...Marcus Bullock Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 BENJAMIN, BAUDELAIRE, ROSSETTI, AND THE DISCOVERY OF ERROR By MARCUSBULLOCK Walter Benjamin wrote much that examined the situation of nine- teenth-century culture...

...Margaret Gilman Margaret Gilman 345 Baudelaire et la Belle aux cheveux d’or. By ALBERTFEUILLERAT. Yale University Press, 1941. Pp. 97. $2.00. L’Architecture des “Fleurs du Mal.” By ALBERT FEUILLERAT. Studies by Members...

...Dominick LaCapra DOMINICK LACAPRA 295 The Hidden Reader: Slendhal, Balzac, Hugo, Baudelaire, Flauberl. By V ICTOK BKOMBEKT.Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1988. 226 pp. $27.50. The dust jacket of Victor...

...William F. Aggeler Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 BAUDELAIRE AND REMORSE By WILLIAMF. AGGELER One of Baudelaire’s most obvious character traits was his honesty with himself. The poet reveals this quality in his letters to his...

... A-PRAD.4 L’Univ4t.s podtique de Baudelaire: Symbolhe et symboliqw. By LLOYDJAMES AUSTIN.Paris: Mercure de France, etudes sur les po6te.s symbolistes franqais, 1956. Pp. 354. 750 fr. The content of this book is defined by its subtitle. The author, Professor Austin of Cambridge...

...Robert Nugent BAUDELAIRE AND HIS FRENCH CRITICS, 1868-1881 By ROBERTNUCENT Ernst-Robert Curtius, in his Essai sur la France, points out (p. 194) that Baudelaire introduced modernisni into the heart of French literature and that his...

...Ralph Behrens Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 BAUDELAIRE AND RIMBAUD : THEIR VOYAGES By RALPHBEHRENS The critic A. Barre, in Le Symbolisme,’ comments that Rimbaud’s Le Bateau Ivre “rappelle encore trop le Baudelaire du Voyage...

.... In his preface to the Histoires Extraordinaires Baudelaire points this out triumphantly : Dans les Nouvelles de Poe, il n’y a jamais d’mur . . . ses dsies, en revanche, en sont fortement saturkes. La divine passion y apparait magnifique, Ctoilk, et toujours voiEe d’une irrCm6diable milancolie...

... controversial subject. It rates a privileged place on the Rolland shelf. CHESTERW. OBUCHOWSKI University of Connecticut Baudelaire devant ses contemporains. Textes recueillis et publiCs par W. T. BANDYand CLAUDEPICHOIS. Monaco: Editions...

... than the expression of a new move- ment in poetry” (p. 17). Such a conclusion is refreshing, especially for a reader trained in the Lansonian tradition. It is also gratifying, later on, to see Baudelaire placed exactly where he 616...

... de Baudelaire: Symbolhe et symboliqw. By LLOYDJAMES AUSTIN.Paris: Mercure de France, etudes sur les po6te.s symbolistes franqais, 1956. Pp. 354. 750 fr. The content of this book is defined by its subtitle. The author, Professor Austin of Cambridge University, reserves the term...

... to distinguish between the two attitudes. Middleton, I would argue, was interested in cynicism in much the same way that Baudelaire was interested in ennui. The comparison between Middleton and Baudelaire is not as gra- tuitous as it may appear. The similarities between the two, though entirely...

... (1988), Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (1997), and other works of literary theory and criticism. He is at work on books on Baudelaire and on the theory of the lyric. “Feminism in Time”: A Response Jonathan Culler collection of essays on feminism in time promises an account...

... que Thdophile Gautier, aprks Baudelaire, et pr6fapnt en 1869 la nouvelle Cdition des Flews du ma2, a chant6 la beaut6 chatoyante du style particulifh-eaux Cpoques de decadence. Le mot a dt6 ramass6 par des journalistes. Depuis, Verlaine l’a repris dans son Sonnet de Be‘rdnice en...

... In Degeneration (1892), Max Nor- dau compares Charles Baudelaire’s influence on other decadent writers to the partition of an empire: “After the death of Alexander the Great his generals fell on the conqueror’s empire, and each one seized a por- tion of his land, so did the imitators that Baudelaire...