Baudelaire : Charles Pierre (1821-67), French poet whose theories were a source of the European symbolist movement.
... Was it due to faulty transcription? No, it was a good transcription of Baudelaire. Or perhaps a fine mystic thing was coming, but the surrealist intervened and spoiled it? There is certainly a change in the inspiration at that point. Probably Nolini's suggestion has raised up or called down the spirit of Baudelaire and he is trying his best to write spiritual poems through you. All these... Surrealism? I gather that Baudelaire is its father, and Mallarmé its son. Surrealism is a new phrase invented only the other day and I am not really sure what it conveys. According to some it is a dream poetry reaching a deeper truth, a deeper reality than the surface reality. I don't know if this is the whole theory or only one side or phase of the practice. Baudelaire as a surrealist is a novel... based on the dream-consciousness, but I don't know if this is correct or merely an English critic's idea of it. The inclusion of Baudelaire and Valery seems to indicate something wider than that. But the word is of quite recent origin and nobody spoke formerly of Baudelaire as a surrealist or even of Mallanne. Mallarmé was supposed to be the founder of a new trend of poetry, impressionist and symbolist ...
... an indirect mystical experience and conveys it essentially through verbal music. Bremond seems in general the nearest to the principles which Edgar Allan Poe enunciated in 1850 and which led Baudelaire seven years later in his Notes nouvelles sur Edgar Poe to use for the first time in literary history the words "pure poetry". Poe's principles may be set forth under five heads: 1)Poetry is... Poe was by nature inclined to write the last type of poetry and it is through his work of this type that he most influenced the French poets who prepared or founded the school of Symbolism — Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarme, Valery. But in the three-stanza'd composition before us we have a complexity of consciousness poised in a catholic inspiration with no special bias towards the Symbolic... no doubt of its inspired character and, as I have already said, its eclecticism makes it a good choice in a discussion that usually leans overmuch to one side or another. And we may observe that Baudelaire who apropos of Poe's work first wrote of "pure poetry" betrays also no narrow cult. He too distinguishes the essence of poetry from both truth and sentiment, from "la pature de la raison" ("the ...
... 5 December 1931 Baudelaire It is a pity that Baudelaire could not allow the Spirit in him to find tongue in the highest key possible to his consciousness. But what on earth did you expect from Baudelaire beyond what he has written. Baudelaire had to be Baudelairean just as Homer had to be Homeric. 7 November 1934 Herbert said yesterday that though Baudelaire is a great poet, he is... imagination, but vulgar or immoral? What is there vulgar in it or immoral? It is as an indolent distraught gesture that he puts it. How does it offend against morality? 31 January 1937 Baudelaire was never vulgar—he was too refined and perfect an artist to be that. He chose the evil of life as his frequent subject and tried to extract poetic beauty out of it, as a painter may deal with a ...
... difference. March 1932 If your translations are read as independent poems they are very beautiful, but they have more of the true "eclogue" than Baudelaire. To be literal (grammatically) is hardly possible in a poetic version and the style of Baudelaire is not easy to transcribe into another language. There is an effect of masculine ease and grace which is really the result of the verbal economy and... in your translation—one element has been stressed at the expense of the other. Certain elements that are not Baudelaire have got in here and there, as in the lines you point out. On the other hand at other places by departing from closeness to the original you have got near to the Baudelaire manner at its strongest, e.g. I'ld have my eyrie hard against the sky. 20 March 1934 There is no... what is behind the veil. I think that even in these languages the power to find it with less effort must come; but meanwhile there is the difference. Your translations. 1) Translation of Baudelaire, 2 very good, third and fourth verse superb. Literalness here does not matter so long as you are faithful to the spirit and the sense. But I don't think you are justified in inserting ইন্দ্রিয়ের— ...
... this Surrealism? I gather Baudelaire was its father, and Mallarmé his son. Surrealism is a new phrase invented only the other day and I am not really sure what it conveys. According to some it is a dream poetry making a deeper truth, a deeper reality than the surface reality. I don't know if this is the whole theory or only one side or phase of the practice. Baudelaire as a surrealist is a novel... based on the dream consciousness, but I don't know if this is correct or merely an English critic's idea of it. The inclusion of Baudelaire and Valery seems to indicate something wider than that. But the word is of quite recent origin and nobody spoke formerly of Baudelaire as a surrealist or even of Mallarmé. Mallarmé was supposed to be the founder of a new trend of poetry—impressionist and symbolist... it. My impression is that there is much fumbling and that more often it is certain obscure and not always very safe layers that are tapped. That accounts for the note of diabolism that comes in in Baudelaire, in Rimbaud also, I believe, and in certain ugly elements in English surrealist poetry and painting. But this is only an impression. Nirod's poetry (what he writes now) is from the Dream Consciousness ...
... night like Chaos old) or ou de gigantesque naiades... or J'eusse aime vivre aupres d'une jeune geante. (I should have loved to dwell with a young giantess.) I don't remember Baudelaire to have used "titanique" or "titanesque" anywhere but it is curious how he easily evokes such an epithet in the minds of his translators or admirers. Thus Edna St.Vincent Millay elaborates his "de... of the bounds to which you refer, would not ipso facto fail to be a genuine poet with a sensitive eye and ear in his own manner of English expression. Departing in places from the verbal form of Baudelaire (or Mallarme, as you thought) he can still -achieve authentic poetry and even convey the inner spirit of the celebrated French sonnet, Correspondances. Or take William Radice on whose behalf you... bonnet on "Indian-English" started buzzing and stinging indiscriminately - with Sri Aurobindo brought in at all costs and made the fundamental victim. To introduce associations which are alien to Baudelaire in some respect is to be more free in translation than you are prepared to allow. It does not mean that the translator is using words without a proper sense of them, nor does it unpoetise the language ...
... than, even just opposite to what they actually are or appear to be. That is the mystique of the senses which is a very characteristic feature of some of the best poetic inspirations of France. Baudelaire too, the Satanic poet, by the sheer intensity of sympathy and sincerity, pierces as it were into the soul of things and makes the ugly, the unclean, the diseased, the sordid throb and glow with... " * "Quite broken they are, yet they have eyes that pierce like a drill, shine like those holes in which the water sleeps at night: they have the divine eyes of a little girl. " —Baudelaire, "Les petites vieilles" Page 294 and form, as the body to render concrete, living and vibrant, near and intimate what otherwise would perhaps be vague and abstract, afar, aloof... sang, to raise things of beauty in heaven by his poetic power, kavih kavitvd divi rupam asajat. Even a Satanic poet, the inaugurator, in a way, of modernism and modernistic consciousness, Charles Baudelaire, thus admonishes his spirit: "Fly away, far from these morbid miasmas, go and purify yourself in the higher air and drink, like a pure and divine liquor, the clear fire that fills the ...
... pity from my point of view is that Baudelaire could not allow the Spirit in him to find tongue in the highest key possible to his consciousness. No poet but is eternally grateful for a magnificent phenomenon like Baudelaire; but one need not on that account be completely satisfied with him: I for one endeavour to catch a glimpse of the supreme noumenon behind Baudelaire. And that is why I am not fundamentally... Manner but Matter and Spirit. It is indeed Spirit, a transcendent Beauty perceived by the writer, that shapes a piece of poetry, though it may act on different levels in a Francis Thompson and in a Baudelaire. But its presence is unmistakable on whatever plane and in whatever personality it may shimmer through the veil of articulate sound. On a congenial level of manifestation it bursts upon us in the ...
... indeed full of promise, there is a sweetness in the rhythm and a sincerity of poetic style which, if developed, may come to something of very real value. I shall comment on your translations (Baudelaire and Shelley) tomorrow; as it is already 2.30 a.m., I have no time just now. 2 I hope the undesirable feeling of which you speak will have disappeared by tomorrow—you ought certainly not to give... full week's life! If the cause is only what you state, there is no rational or irrational reason why it should last so long. July 11, 1931 Your translations. 1. Translation of Baudelaire, 3 very good, third and fourth verse superb. Literalness here does not matter so long as you are faithful to the spirit and the sense. But I don't think you are justified in inserting jndriyer... is always good poetry —which is what I suppose Tagore meant to say when he wrote " Tom ā r ā r bhay n ā i." [You have no more fear.] And after all I have said nothing about Huxley or Baudelaire ! Page 84 July 25, 1931 Your poem is magnificent in energy and beauty. Only, comparing its flame-force with the moth-like fragility of the little piping love-piece that provoked ...
... its original from France, and Symbolism in the special sense is a mode of poetry consummated first in the France of the closing decades of the nineteenth century. It is associated with the names of Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarme, Valery and some others. But it is not exactly a single mode of poetry. There are varieties of Sym-bolism and not all continue or consummate the Blakean type. Let me... object may be laid hands on and converted into a symbol of the poet's grope for Perfection, a straight or curved or twisted path to his sense of the Ideal, his achievement of the flawless poetic form. Baudelaire is the intensest initiator of this Symbolism as well as of the em-bryos, so to speak, of the other types. Viele-Griffin, Laforgue, Page 211 Stuart Merrill, Francis Jammes, Paul Fort ...
... it can stand, if you prefer it-though it does not give the full epic note which is sustained throughout the rest of the poem." The poet had roughly Baudelaire in mind as his subject: hence the word "sin". Sri Aurobindo wrote of Baudelaire, "He was a good poet with a perverted imagination", but considered him quite inadequate for the role depicted in the poem. According to Sri Aurobindo, the ...
... province doesn't go so far. January 28, 1937 I knew that it meant something, but not palpably enough to let you in. It was palpable to Nolini who said moreover that it reminded him of Baudelaire. A very big compliment, but I don't know that the parallel can be enforced very far. I have always said that feeling is not enough, but every time you stopped me, saying that mystic poems... No use not sending, as I am not going to send. My reference to it was only a joke. I hope Mother is better now. Somewhat. January 30, 1937 Herbert said yesterday that though Baudelaire is a great poet, he is considered an immoral one. That is not anything against his greatness—only against his morality. Plenty of great people have been "immoral". I had just a glance at ...
... than, even just opposite to what they actually are or appear to be. That is the mys tique of the senses which is a very characteristic feature of some of the best poetic inspirations of France. Baudelaire too, the Satanic poet, by the sheer intensity of sympathy and sincerity, pierces as it were into the soul of things and makes the ugly, the unclean, the diseased, the sordid throb and glow with an... sang, to raise things of beauty in heaven by his poetic power, kavih kavitvā divi rūpam āsajat. Even a Satanic poet, the inaugurator, in a way, of modernism and modernistic consciousness, Charles Baudelaire, thus admonishes his spirit: "Flyaway, far from these morbid miasmas, go and purify yourself in the higher air and drink, like a pure and divine liquor, the clear fire that fills the limpid ...
... Page 21 enriched the French language so much that it became, in Sri Aurobindo's words, "the greatest store-house of fine prose among the world's languages." The poet Charles Baudelaire was followed by Stéphane Mallar-me who was the founder of a new trend of poetry, impressionist and symbolist, himself followed in varying degrees, and not by any means in the same way, by Paul Verlaine... A fresh spirit was abroad. The very atmosphere was surcharged with a revolt against the old classical values —the legacy of the Renaissance and the Baroque. As a matter of fact, Hugo, Baudelaire, Zola had all leapt to the defence of Manet when he was attacked from all sides for his revolutionary painting. Baudelaire's critical work L'Art romantique (1868) is considered the fountainhead ...
... it can stand, if you prefer it—though it does not give the full epic note which is sustained throughout the rest of the poem." The poet had roughly Baudelaire in mind as his subject: hence the word 'sin'. Sri Aurobindo wrote of Baudelaire, "He was a good poet with a perverted imagination", but considered him quite inadequate for the role depicted in the poem. According to Sri Aurobindo, the ...
... we never find vulgarity in the artistic creation of any true artist. Baudelaire, Verlaine, Oscar Wilde – these creators who dived deep into the very core of natural experiences never for once lost the decorum of their inner Being. Vulgarity has no place in their language, in the expression of their creativity. The style Baudelaire adopted was purely classical – 'aristo'. On the other hand, there are ...
... inherent in the French language as developed through the centuries: Hugo at even his best had but sublimated by an imaginative and rhythmic process the spirit of prose. It is with men like Nerval and Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Verlaine, that the French Muse began to emancipate herself from prose, and in Mallarme she exceeded herself by partly becoming non-French. Mallarme was conscious of his own rare acc ...
... oneself, mankind or the cosmos. What painter, what poet, what writer has not wrenched from this conflict the best of his art, from Michelangelo to Goya, from Van Gogh to Rodin, from Villon to Rimbaud, Baudelaire or Dostoevski? And the work of art—the painting, novel or poem—is a harmony torn from this disharmony, a conquest over some chaos, a response to a question posed by man—a metamorphosis. Artistic ...
... lake) and the là - bas (the Azure). These contradictory themes also find expression in L'Après midi d'un Faune and in Hérodiade , respectively. The Ennui (Boredom - Spleen of Baudelaire) which Mallarmé mentions in most of his poems [Brise Marine, Renouveau, for example) is nothing but momentary inability to write poetry. Mallarmé never succumbs to the feelings of inertia; ...
... Huysmans and his novels about black magic, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle and his idiosyncratic Sherlock Holmes, Marcel Proust, chronicler of his time, and the superlative French poets Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Valéry. And there were of course the Impressionists, scandalizing but revolutionizing the world of the arts, not to forget the philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche ...
... Sigmund Freud. In 1880 Impressionism had reached its zenith and was already splitting up into other, no less amazing or disturbing schools of art. In its footsteps followed the literary symbolism of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé and Valéry, now venerated as god-like statues at the gates of all modernist writing. “It may be pure accident or arbitrary selection”, writes Eric Hobsbawm in The ...
... heart and to ask for advice regarding his sentimental adventures. It was the time of one of the great culminations of European art with the music of Berlioz, Franck, Saint-Saëns, the poetry of Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud and Mallarmé, the novels of Zola, the operas of Massenet, the recitals of Eugène Ysaÿe, a Belgian violinist of genius, of the bals (dancing halls), the Moulin Rouge and the ...
... Arya 90, 92 Ashram 92 Asuras 5 Athens 47 Atri 8 Atul Gupta 102 Auchathya 8 Avatara 27 B Bacchus 34 Balaka 92 Bamardo 23, 24 Baudelaire 72 Bauls 84 Beethoven 9 Bengal 91, 104 Bengalis 98 Bengal mysticism 88 Bengali Poetry 82 Bhakta 78 Boris Pasternak 38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 44, 45 Brahman ...
... transfigures: Space is a stillness of God building his earthly abode. ¹ But French too in her own inimitable way gives us glimpsesof a beyond and otherwhere, as in these well-known lines of Baudelaire: II est des parfums frais comme des chairs d' enfants, Doux comme les hautbois, verts comme les prairies, - Et d'autres, corrompus, riches et triomphants, Ayant l'expansion des chases ...
... Truth. But here our modern poet replaces the Heart by the Liver and makes of this organ the central altar of human aspiration and inspiration. We may remember in this connection that the French poet Baudelaire gave a similar high position – and function – to the other collateral organ, the spleen. The modern Bengali poet considers that man's consciousness, even his poetic inspiration, is soaked in ...
... contrary to each other: one does not deny or negate the other. They are intermixed, fused in a mysterious identity. The best and the worst are but two conditions, two potentials of the same entity. Baudelaire, who can be considered as the first of the real moderns in many ways, saw and experienced this intimate polarity or identity of opposites in human nature and consciousness. What is Evil, who is the ...
... vitalism, and Sigmund Freud and his theory of the subconscious. Impressionism and the post-impressionist schools in painting destroyed the classical norms in the arts, as did the symbolist poets Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarmé in literature. All this, and much more, really looked like “an attempt all over the world towards breaking the veil” between the outer and the inner realities, necessary for a ...
... don't touch me. I never thought that Congress politics or feeding the poor or writing beautiful poems would lead straight to Vaikuntha or the Absolute. If it were so, Romesh Dutt on one side and Baudelaire on the other would be the first to attain the Highest and welcome us there. It is not the form of the work itself or mere activity but the consciousness and God ward will behind it that are the essence ...
... not touch me. I never thought that the Congress politics or feeding the poor or writing beautiful poems would lead straight to Vaikuntha or the Absolute. If it were so, Romesh Dutt on one side and Baudelaire on the other would be the first to attain the highest and welcome us there. It is not the form of the work itself or mere activity but the consciousness and Godward will behind it that are the essence ...
... after WWII, he came as the Governor of French India. In his book Le chemin de bonheur Baron speaks of his quest. Gabriel Monod-Herzen (1899), Doctores-Science. Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821-67), French lyric poet, author of Les fleurs du mal. Paul Valery (1871-1945). Stephane Mallarme (1842-98), French symbolist poet; author of Uapres-midi d'un faune ...
... ceases, but we may continue to employ that name because some tendency towards that side is present, mixed with several others, in most of the remaining parts. It is with an eye to this tendency that Baudelaire seems to have defined the Romantic as not only "colour" and "intimacy" but also "spirituality" and "aspiration towards the infinite". The soul acting, however elementarily on the whole, in its ...
... The subtlety of the reasoning notwithstanding, the attentive reader cannot miss the unfolding argument. In the movement from the old poetry to the new. Mallarmé has a centrality following Baudelaire and the earlier Symbolists and preceding the latter day Surrealists. Sethna is not lost in the ramifications of the subject, and shows how, for all its obscurity and knotted density, Mallarmé’s ...
... so they don't touch me. I never thought that politics or feeding the poor or writing beautiful poems would lead straight to Vaikuntha or the Absolute. If it were so, Romesh Dutt on one side and Baudelaire on the other would be the first to attain the Highest and welcome us Page 220 there. It is not the form of the work itself or mere activity but the consciousness and Godward will behind ...
... Gibbon had a famous hydrocele, Marat suffered frightfully from a skin disease, and Charles V had gout, arteriosclerosis, and dropsy. Many eminent men had syphilis (Henry VIII, Benvenuto Cellini, Baudelaire), and sufferers from tuberculosis can be listed with out end — Voltaire, Kant, Keats, Dostoevsky, Moliere, Schiller, Descartes, Cardinal Manning, Spinoza, Cicero, St. Francis. But in the realm of ...
... utmost care was to keep principles pure and unsullied; and the upshot was that those principles remained principles only, barren and infructuous, some thing like, in the strong and puissant phrase of Baudelaire – La froide majeste de la femme sterile. And on the contrary, we have had other. peoples, much addicted to personalities – especially in Asia – who did not care so much for abstract ...
... Avatara(s), 49, 55, 69, 161, 205, 261, 277, 286, 390 BAAL,220 Babylon, 223 Bacon, 16 Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, 114, 197 Bartho1omews, St., 52 Baudelaire, 48 Beethoven, 88 Behaviourism, 326 Benda, Julien, 119 - La Trahison des Clercs, 119 Bentham, 50, 140 Berdyaev, 260 Bergson, 16-20, 255, ...
... services, etc.... I never thought that the Congress politics or feeding the poor or writing beautiful poems would lead straight to Vaikuntha or the Absolute. If it were so, Romesh Dutt on one side and Baudelaire on the other would be the first to attain the highest and welcome us there.... "My remarks about being puzzled were, by the way, mere Socratic irony. Of course I am not in the least puzzled ...
... to a foreign country, and I was about eighteen, I think. I went to Rangoon with my 66 Les Fleurs du mal (often translated as The Flowers of Evil) is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire, first published in 1857. Page 36 mother. I had some relatives, my guardians there; of course, you see, there was a talk of marriage. Before I went to England, my guardians said ...
... 227-8 Asia, 284 Asuras, 159 Aswins, 45 Atri, 162 Auden,88 Aurelius, 70 BACCHUS, 182 Bacon, 108 Banerji, Sanat Kumar, 230n Banquo, 171 Barnardo, 173-5 Baudelaire, 66, 78, 94, 96, 214, 287 -us Fleurs du Mal, 95n -"Correspondances", 287n -"L'Aube spirituelle", 95 -"Le Couvercle", 95 -"L'Elevation",78n -"L'Irremediable," 95 -"Les ...
... free after a time from the effects of your own Karma, but it seems there are lapses and transgressions that are so formidable that no atonement can remedy them, there is no redemption for these. Baudelaire, the great French poet (of the underworld) speaks of the "Irrémédiable". He says, ¹ Inferno, Canto III , 11. 1-9. Page 51 when Satan does a thing, if he means it, he does ...
... who are most materialistic, who are averse to any Ideal, who are anti-divine, whatever may be their outer utterance – are they not the descendants of Lucifer or Prometheus? Let us recollect what Baudelaire wrote about them, about the pangs of their hearts: Une Idée, une Forme, un Être Parti de I' azur et tombè Dans un Styx bourbeux et plombé, Ou nul oeil du Ciel ne pénètre. ...
... But here our modem poet replaces the Heart by the Liver and makes of this organ the central altar of human aspiration and inspiration. We may remember in this connection that the French poet Baudelaire gave a similar high position and —function—to the other collateral organ, the spleen. The modem Bengali poet considers that man's Page 72 consciousness, even his poetic inspiration ...
... what I write, otherwise it is easy to misunderstand its real significance. I said that there was no reason why poetry of a spiritual character (not any poetry like Verlaine's or Swinburne's or Baudelaire's) should bring no realisation at all . This did not mean that poetry was a major means of realisation of the Divine. I did not say that it would lead us to the Divine or that anyone had achieved ...
... profound novelty, though others have figured the sky in language felicitous or striking. We have Blanco White's fine and adequate This glorious canopy of light and blue — there is Baudelaire's recherche exclamation, Le Ciel! couvercle noir de la grande marmite — and its less hectic counterpart in Fitzgerald's Omar, And that inverted bowl we call the sky ...
... what a variety of approaches! The twelve great masters of style: Aeschylus and Dante: Dante and Shakespeare: Shakespeare and Blake: the poetry of the school of Dryden and Pope: Shelley's Skylark: Baudelaire's "vulgarity": Anatole France's "ironising": Walter de la Mare's Listeners: five kinds of poetic style: austerity in poetry: architectonics in poetic composition: "great" poetry and merely beautiful ...
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