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OUTUHB * ^ \ r* -x. a
A.M. p
Inlroauetion 1
1 Early lif ©
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2. His Dorics 6
3. Later life 7
1 Publications
. of Poe in France 10
2. Baudelaire's »um on Poe 10
3. Influence of Poe on Baudelaire's .vorx 16
4. Influence of Poe on Baudelaire a poetic U4c trine . .26
5. Influence of Poe on 3auu.elaire ' a bociai tiioa^iit . ,30
1, Similarities . 32
2. Cii'i'erences ....... .... 33
Chapter 4. Conclusion 3^
Summary .35
Siblio^rapxiy 36
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The Influence of Edgar Allan Poe on Charles Baudelaire
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-Ehl qu' aiaies-tu done, extraorainalre e tranter?
-J'aiuie les nua^es. lesjaua^es qui passent
. . la-bas . . .
and complete facts of Edgar Allan Poe's life. They have been
azingly enougn, tnere are many even today Who are loth to accept
Poe, wno even repudiate him. Taey admit his genius but calx him
and there I saw tnis sentence: "An enthusiasm for Poe is the mark
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CHAPTER 1
1 . Barly life.
There are two ways for a man of genius to present his works
cannot understand the book without knowin uis life, and vice
versa.
father uied in 1327, and his motner remarried tne following year.
the stepfatner, was good to Charles ana sincerely loved him all
lycee in Lyons.
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poetry. His schoolmates did not understand nim exactly — ana,
widely, dia not to rather, they saw him as an exalted
with all nis ai^uain of scnool, he helu one of t^e highest ramks.
He headed directly for Pa-is and made his home in easy access
settle his mind, thought tue family. So tuey set nim aboard a
snip for t .e lies axid India. But discipline was still distaste-
Bordeaux. Tne trip was not without its effects, However, for
he saw tne tropics. They appealed to all t^at was exotic in nim
and tuey left nim memories and images t^at ne was to recall and
use later.
tne literary field. Already he naa mucxi lived, mucxi seen, mucn
thougnt, much acted fOr himself. He set -led down in Paris to
sensuous lips; the iuoutn rea^y to spea*t; a beara, fine ana curly
about tue cheeks ariu cnin; hair heavy about the temples; a olack
2. His workB.
firm style arij. with a logic going straight to its end. Beinq an
perfect in form and color, and he aia not nesitate to say so. One
may Judge his taste oy his own style wnicn was irreproachable,
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be no great painting witnout great thought.
Corf aire- Satan , a paper 0fn wnich Bauaelaire night carry on his
to the original.
But otner events were crowding into nis exiLtence. The Rev-
were tne basis of living. He may not aave ta^en an active part
puolished until H57. Then tney were printed by his friend Mal-
assis, wno pri ited for the love of it, ratner than for tne pecun-
and vicious boQ-c. Six of the hunarea poems were cut out. Their
autuor wa_ genuinely naively astonished. He hau offered tnem
3. Later life.
The storm of nis early life, tne arain nis .otics _nad brougnt
Salon de 1 359
Le Salon de 1
T5D well exemplifies his state of ^ind at the time.
art an^ its creators and he hai identified himielf witn them ana
tneir efforts.
Bruxeiies in 1364, iea there by a hope of oak log money toy giving,
last time his friends sav» him thus, tne last time tney possessed
August 31, 1
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CHAPTER 2
1 346 - Revue des deux Monues ( ogtobre 15): EVude sur Poe .
by Forgues.
1847 - Demo c rat ie Pacif ique ( .lanvier 27): Ljj Chat Noir,
By Mme I sa belie Meunier.
Mae Meunier.
sujets reves par nol, mals aes Phrases, pensees par mol, et
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knoe, love, understand taia man for shoe ne nau such an instinc-
pBe, qui :i 'est pas rana' cnose in Aaerlque, aevi enne un grand
homme pour la France." (2) He cailect.ju ail his writings and set
to won.
Ao a young boy, Baudelaire haa oeen taug..t English oy nis
other wno knew it weii, so ne could reau Poe with ease. Bat
was to catch his thought ana uia^e a translation tnat lit era! xy
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(1) Lettre a Tnore': Lettx'es . p. 362
(2) Lettres .p.91
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American staying in a notel in tne boulevara of the Gapucines;
for English sailors who coula give niiu exact terms of navigation.
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as a literary Messiah.
ejeay of Poe's life became known to nim. His sympathy for hi.u
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milies occupations a'une vie Elegante, avec ie vrui Eagar ,
of his own. At last he felt hla sell complet eiy identified with
his master, his hero he was unuergoing for Poe, the latters
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) Oeuvres Posthouieb . p. 2 43
(2) Seylaz, p. 43
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1857 - Les Nouvelles Hiatolrea
Ext raordioa ires
1853 - Les Aventures de Gordon Pym
( aussi dan a Le Moniteur )
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1 364 - Eureka^auaai lana faa
Revue Internatio .tale )
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1865 - Histoire s d-ro. leagues et
Sdrieuees
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ana admiration for tne man was to.6 influence so reat tnat
Poe came into Bauaela j.re ' s life, when tne latter was aireauy
must remember tnat his book: of verse was alre^y thought out
and .vritteu oei'or he even reau. a line of Poe. ills reading of
Poe uiu not cuam 6 e ais first original thoughts, it merely showed
( 1 ) Lettres, p. 362
perf ection. ( 1 ) There is too much cicerxty la tno^e lines
existing affinities.
that the remark fits both the American and the Frenchman!.
two poems:
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lis Bare Jient devant moi, ces Yeux plelns ue lLi.neres,
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-To Helen ( 1
Bauaelaire:
un de ces granas abandonnei
Au rire e'ternel condamnes
Et qui ne peuvent plus sourire."
Again Poe:
"A h Lupous throng rush out forever
Ahd laught--but s^ile no more."
- The riauateu. Palace ( 3
" Tamerlane ( 5
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In tne 1327 euition, tnei^e were the 80 notes to the aoove passage:
"I nave often fancied that I could distinctly hear tue Bound of
pernaps, but riot aore uni ite Lli.dlble than to see music ." (0
Later tnese notes were .transferred to this passage:
loud'.'
-M 4E&&I (2)
Both poets were sensitive to tne fascinatin^ .,ov/er
x of eyes:
- Elepnora ( 2
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descriptions:
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Le soleills'est noye aans ssnsj qui se fi^e."
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"C est un univers morne, a l' horizon ploabey
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De.. feroces oibeaux percnes sur lear puture
Detruiaaient avec ra^« un pendu ueja oClt,
Gnaoua plant ant, coiuje un uutil &un jcc ii^pur
Dans toua lee coins aanguiaante de celts pourrlture."
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L£S Flours da MayL a p. .3C 1
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boiisui:
-Oorrospondanc ee ( 3
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Yhich is the eer st *ura of ail.
Ail Wnturo speak*, anu ev'n ideal tninga
Flap shadowy so una ^ from visionary thing a
Yjuu.j; flowers *ere wh.eperin^ i.i ..^clody
To happy flowers that night, ana tree to tree;
of It ffas a dr .-afcard sho killed his wife trie plot in the B] ack
Jat. Tne anticlimax was borrowed almost textually from Tne imp
Tae iaea for t.ic vork can be directly traceu. back to a paragraph
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in Poe't* jiu r,siaaiia :
One aus l not put too much wires*; on these analogies let
original genius, and as sue .a, ne would always convert his own
it was tnrough 3aua luire that the very doctrine »as presented,
( \ ) Llpincott : p. HQ
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worxs:
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Jn tableau dlolt arrant to at reproduire la pensee
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He crie.. for the original, tne new, the unexpected, whian is truly
3at Poe Intervened b-tween the first papers and his later
Sax ,n ae 18^9 . his preface to Lep. 11-- org au jjg I . hi a Journ aux
wita ais talk on tne power of woras, the vaiue of saunas, tne
the two men, Baudelaire should accept Integra ... iy tne doctrines
Et un thea re ou 1 on at bona
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more, tnis poe.u written solely for the poem's saxe." (1)
a'a^ pas la Ve'ritcf pour cojet, elle n'^ o.u eile-neme. '
Botn men agree that Beauty plays the leading part in poetry.
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Tlfse£ sords, one caa see, are the summary of the Poetic Prin-
ciple . tia^. Jaaaeiaire aot ^i/en u^ the s ritia^ of tn« preface,
have had direct evidence of all tne new Fro tea school of poetry
tion of 1 343 bat increased this faita. his SaJgOjQ ^e 134b was
The buupeois neeaea art vous pouv:>z traia jours sans p-in;
since tney were ;-li sapabie of appreciation. They hau not none
was to snow t ,e bjor&eois what tne beautiful was .nd mey would
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) Oouvrcs J
ostno!iios, p. 12
(2) Ou j?iO ox i J t, Lip ie s -
, p 77 .
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appreciate it.
moa erne, Jette de; tenebreg sur tous les objets ae la eonnaissance
That a rauioal change nia feelings x.i^e r<; eat as he expres .ed
them in the Salon ue i >5j and in ghat would have been tne preface
Partly because of the trial j^e had unaerQ&ne over j-<^>. /ioar^
ioal, oat mostly because Pot naa bee a aa... xy scornful of tne
here, thai Bade him adopt ?jo's theories. <Ie /ertheless, tne influ-
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( 2 ) getitjg i'jtf^ a en Frose : p 20
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CHAPTER "3
1. Similarities.
Botn are tall, both are ^ark. the eyea of both Stir strange
manner.
ly; both felt that literature s.lone oouia be their vocation; botn
loved passionately tne woaaa they cahfia mother; ootu tnrew off
the authority of tueir adopted father; Dot a -ere ftflthf ull^s lovers,
one to his wife, the other to his uriwortny mi stress; ootxi fell
of tnem aokno v/iou ..e or bo^ down to; both were, in consequence,
sou^nt diligently for tne choice ora, the rare sensation; both
looked upon the commonplace as a mortal >n ny: both strove, when
their .aistake, ana both succumbea to the fatal ./ish to 3oar into
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2. Differences.
Trie para i lei iSia coulu oa drawn on indef irvi^el/, yet we must
^rotesqae ther la too lauiei* oi t.ie e<£ -ism oi' v.oman in him.
that all hie i'ooa Tor tno u^nt came froii Lne ph/eleai. He oelieved
Poe's senses of
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of touon ana smell arc tno be no recur s to oobi olten. Yet even
as ft write these sordii we have rei-i^ni see ices ot Poe from each
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CHAPTER 4
GonoluBlon
of irhat the senses perceive in nature across the /eil of the soul.
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SUMMARY
Jauaeiaire coi-eooej. and yUJliBaeu uit own poems unuert the title
oi t>eb •
Ucara ulu ..iai . in thes , as in all uia later works, there
only seen i his wor<s but in his poetic dootrlnes and social
poetry.
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3IBLI0G v'.?HY
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/aiaeB, Henry • Freno u Po e t a ftxiu pyQiiata--^n.
ij i3aaa.eiai.re
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