The essay — Index VI
Index VI — Remarks on Baudelaire
Remarks on Baudelaire
The thirteenth line
Contrasting meanings
Abundance of provocations
Nature
1857 publication
Leakey’s assumption
The author’s disappointment
The term «où»
Symboles, répondent, chantent, corrompus
The term «répondent»
Nature, temple
Two lines with «parfums»
Imagining the text to be commented on.
Interpretation
Temple
Correspondences, perfumes
„the Whole of her“
Dodona
Germaine de Staël, Balzac, Plato, Plotinus
Æsop
Echoes
Oaks
Words
Worship
Aged Solomon
The eighth line
„Evening harmony“
The ninth line
The eleventh line
Unexpected interpretations
The „Iliad“
Spirit
Claude Pichois and Jacques Gengoux
The third line
Mental feasts
Tercets
„Mademoiselle de Maupin“
The eighth line again
On opposites
Musical colour
Physics, poetry
The term «corrompus»
Claude Pichois and symbolism
The poem
Things Nature and temple have in common.
The term «autres»
Forests and words
Sweetness
Sympathies
The corruption of incense
The term «corrompus» again
Influences
Praises and incense
The sword
„A former life“
The obscurity of the sanctuary
Abstract and concrete
Annotated editions
Shocks
The tenth line
First line, eleventh, thirteenth
N in «Nature»
The second quatrain
Balzac and the organ
We look on what we love.
The term «Comme»
The term «frais»
Edgar Allan Poe, Balzac, and the unity of reality
Supernaturalism
Pillars
Lamartine
Wine
The term «clarté»
The abundance of images
„Invitation to voyage“
The unique character of a great poetic text
Balzac and mental iconography
Venus
An incomplete search
Colours
The N of «Nature» again
Anthology
Persians
Attenuating the apparently arbitrary.
Poetry or statement
The term «temple» again
„the Flask“
„Sorrowful and wandering“
„Massimilla Doni“
The term «Nature» again
Interpretations again
Imaginary epitaph
Back to the elogy
„Séraphîta“
The poet or the man more generally?
An oak for Baudelaire
The pillars of wisdom
Chevreul
The absolute
Incense for the Bible
Dodona again
Dionysos
The whole universe
„the Irremediable“
Humming
Courtois
Philo of Alexandria
The term «encens» again
„I give you these verses so that if my name…“
The wiseman
Paul and Athens
Pliny on the Forest of Germania
Pliny on happy Arabia
Balance
The perfumes of the earth
Porphyry
The «other» perfumes
Tree-pillars
The choir masters
Mares and Zephyr
Spiritualism
Trismegistus
Paesant debts
Interpretative outline
Stimulants
„Satan’s litanies“
Distance
Colour and scent
Claude Pichois reflecting on anachronisms.
Symbolization
Ovid and anthropomorphism
„Saint Peter’s denial“
Metaphysics or poetry
Philopœmen
„Exotic perfume“
„Elevation“
Context
„the Sick muse“
„Ill fortune“
Writings and pictures
„the Enemy“
Pain and creating
The meadow of death
The torture of the roses
Admirative mockery
The Pyrenees
Context again
Pythia and incense
Evil spells
Truth
Tertullian and Celsius
Plotinus and Lucretius
Asselineau on Baudelairean methods
Contact
The paradoxes of good and evil
Nature seems like a temple
The strength of sensuality
Intuition
The best ideas become common.
Disciplined audacity
Contraction
New procedure
Symbols and forests
A missing piece
A landing appears
Apparent repetition
Permissible passion
A cumbersome measurement
Perfumes and lakes
A beautiful vacuum
Lyricism
Instruction
Difficulty in choosing the bulk.
Doubt over rumours
Recent memories
Immediate gain
Tricky measurement
Manor
Remodelling
The sword-bearing poet.
Emotion
Risk of artefact
A keen consciousness
Forests and Nature
Time and space
Subterranean echoes
Marvels before our eyes
Following Pliny.
Galvani
Health through incense
Instant brightness
Elements of finality
Combination of depth and trouble
The new quarrel about atoms
Cats
Love as a war
First stage of construction
Justifiable choice
Cleopatra
Unbelievers
Travel fancies
Capital letter
Playing with colours.
Poisonous plant
The obstinacy of a libertine free-thinker
Scruples
The first couple
Dazzling sights
A strange choice
Uncompromising morals
Roses and cabbages
Illuminati
Double power
Consensus
Balzac and Homer
Deformation of the calculation
Proximity with difference
Imprudent pride
Art and surprise
Victories
Upsetting sentiments
Complementary beliefs
Clear pattern
„With the pearly shimmer of her rippling garments…“
The generating process
Childhood
The landscape church
Mixed desires
Pandora
Nostalgia
The epoch
Division of labour
Infinities
Paradoxical zoology
A sharpened look
Woman-garden
Cosmos
Grandiose views
Possible caution
Return to an important case
Mathematics and fantasy
Paradox and trimmings
Between knowledge and belief
Dreams
A Platonic Egypt
Indistinct coding
Grammatical obviousness
Playing with sounds.
„Blurred Sky“
„Confession“
The countryside
World Fair
Rungs and sites
No springboard
Shared attribute
Awkward clarification
The best reach
Wide spacing
A satisfied artist
Poetry or utility
The “vast” according to Saint-Évremond
„Chastisement of pride“
Nations in infancy
A widow in Saint Pancras
Discordances
Partial misinterpretation
Related trees
A harsh tone
Far from home
A choice to make according to the situation.
A fragile link between terms
Blasphemy
¨Fantastic Symphony¨
A card game
Intending to see too much corrupts.
Two beauties
The past in the present
Far from God’s sight
Obscure to oneself
Endless memories
„Music“
In the shadow of the mountains
A natural history of society
A perfume in a memory
An ancient analogy
Rooted prophets
A familiar spirit
Mystic blue
Lassitude
Holy night
Architectural use of echoes
Perfume and song
Hidden smile
Oaks
Transposition
Dreamy thoughts
Innatism
Labour at school
A comma
Latin hymns
Internal twists
Mood swings
Dangerous loathing
Chemistry and theology
Expansion of sound
Glamorous triumph
Evil
Banter
Green and red
Fields, town, meadows
The original meaning wins
Woods and greenery
Perfume and life
A soft lawn
Cybele
The household gods
Living minerals
A mission churchyard
The embodiment of human feelings in animals
The master of nature
The general pattern of metaphor
A social background
The object and the person using it.
Clothes and function
Atonement for a sin
Diverging inspirations
Essential and accidental
Stressing differences in order to describe.
Regular forms
The danger of simple outlines
Alliterations
Resonances
One-to-one mapping
Continuity of beings
Spleen
Shifting words
Two different trends
Marvellous shortcuts
Sinister compensation
Separate ideas
The outer appearences of reason
Sacred heights
Possible misunderstanding
Successful annexation
Leaves
Love and friendship
Weakness of the Messiah
Rebellious question
Feeling uncertain about the terrain
The dangers of the night
Double appraisal
Activity could be everywhere.
Elective affinities
Love and combinations
Forces
Chemical correspondences
A red thread
Unifying theology
Images of the world
Tough exchanges
Different but coherent approaches
An unconvincing etymology
The spirit of the age
Cultural milieu
A call in the temple
References to nature
A cradle of harmony
Mental state
Roots
Living words
Hahnemann, Mesmer and Gall
Clothes and nature
The term «parfois»
Jean Paul Richter
Honour
Progress
Hell
In ignorance of the causes
Far away
Mores and nature
Finalism
Understandable views
One material balances another
Legacy of the vocabulary
Subterfuges
Spleen and massacre
Textual echoes
The obscure fabric of mankind
A bad start
Overflow
Insufficient means of defense
Prostitution
Sapphism
A sham moral code
Synthesizing intuitions
Smelling human flesh.
Lights, perfumes, jewels and philtres
Corruption and love
Prayers
The Devil
Typographic requirements
Cazotte
Dazzlement and night
A cry
Intellectual development
Home and temple
Mewing
Water and wine
Political fears
Illusory decoding
Marvellous key
Linguistic relationships
Leonardo and Baudelaire
Changing artistic energy
Saving dynamism
Allori and Baudelaire
A forest of innuendos
Means and ends
Art and imitation
Fabrics, nations and texts
Wished-for change
Repetition of title in final word
Canibalism
The “i” and blood
Loving suaveness
Double correspondence
Art and anxiety
Laughing meadows
Death and health
Diabolical laughter
Two forms of darkness
Solar balance
Regional accent
Careless mistake
Uncertainty
The relationship with Antiquity
On the French
The animal in man
Slang
The cats’ poet
The two “R’s” in «corrupt»
Ordered dreaming
Misunderstanding of chronology
Desire for perfection
Correspondence between faculties
The sense of sacrifice
A very vague reflection of existence
Strange fusion
Correspondence with ancient times
Cadmus and Cuvier
Love mocks death.
The lion and the Unicorn
Copernicus and Laplace
Religion and art
„The Death of Artists“
„The Venal Muse“
From life
Illusory experience
Feeling of change
Going for a song.
Poussin and Corneille
The need to understand
Sexuality with or without flowers
Perfume as prayer
Nearby lands
Embroidery without pretensions
The pleasure of shocking
A surprising rhyme
„The Murderer’s wine“
Familiar observations
Rousseau and Baudelaire
Meadows, milk, honey
Bitter considerations
Aphrodite’s dark side
Don Juan and Zeus
Through the vapours
Nauseous perfume
God as the absolute benchmark
Paris
New complete manse
Slow progression
Saying or pinning
Expansi-on
Echoes of human forms
“Echoes which answer each other in the distance” and «…echoes which mingle in the distance…»
Well-hidden corruption
Plausibility of the brews
Continuity and its description
Doubtful reputation
“Which observe him” and “Which he observes”.
Constructing an example
Nine illustrations
An astonishing mind
Meaning and object
An enthusiastic artistic milieu
The number of occurrences of “comme” and “Comme”
The “House of Gold”
“Darling”
Honour according to Saint-Évremond
The chemistry of expansion
Opium
Expressions difficult to break down.
The 7 occurrences of “Comme” and “comme”
Vicinity in the arts
Lily or perversion
The risks of illustrating.
An exchange for artists; or the sanctuary of love
Art as a reflection; or the ideal loved one
A universal museum; or the edifice of the perfect body
Columns of styles; or perfect legs
The pillar as a style; or legs, living pillars
Indications in the temple; or desire in legs
Inspiration only comes at time; or desire is unexpected.
Confused styles of meaning; or amorous expression
Inspiration given to artists; or feminine desire.
Words of style; or the expression of the legs
The artist as servant of beauty; or the lover
The artists move through the museum; or man arrives.
A very dense series of rooms; or the organic forest
Forest of offerings; or the marvels of the body
The eyes of the mind; or watching over love.
A feeling of protection; or the sign seen by a lover.
Imagining a look.
A persistent rhythm
Glory; or a cry of joy
Popular clamour; or exclamations of pleasure
Poetry; or perfume
Rumours among the people; or amorous depths
Fusion of rumours of glory; or amorous cries
Cultural glory; or the joy of union
Vagueness of reputation; or vast great cry
People; or woman
Good and evil
Art; or love
Interview
Different rooms in the temple; or the woman decorated.
A methodical poet
A joyous style; or feminine traditions
Writers and painters; or toddlers’ parties
The artistic offering; or the glow of living flesh
Pastorals; or young people
Poetry and music; or the perfumes of the shepherdess
Poems on blossoming soon to come; or the nearly-adult female.
The green of the verses; or the apple of the meadows
Disturbing poetry; or the pagan side of love
The last, unexpected room; or strengthened sin
Satan
Verses with an important meaning; or perfumes from life
Successful poems; or praise for a beauty with heavy perfumes
Dangerous poetry for the naïve; or secret perfumes
Diverse inspiration; or organic perfumes
Freshness before its opposite; or initiation
Verses rich in meaning; or costly perfumes
Triumphant verses; or young adulthood
Poetry inspired by other arts; or love in the eyes of a dandy
Poems of excess; or dizzy perfumes
The unity of beauty; or dense perfumes of life
Mind or senses; or ultimate ceremony in the temple
An equivocal status
A combination of images
A religious service in the natural temple
The memory of the fourteen lines
Possible oppositions between symbols
The order of the words
Men and perfumes
Beginning and end
The creator and his time
An exercise in Latin verse
The arts and one art
Two closely related poems
The shortness of the literary form
Invention of words
Voyaging through a poem
“Living” and “lively”
Two simultaneous contrivances
Septa and glosses
Comparing a poem with a statement.
Numerous related operations
Symbols of several kinds
A daring reference
Lines 1 and 9
Warning the audience about any changes
Possible error of the exegete
Deepening of thought
Caution in interpretation
A convenient contrivance
The impression that the past helps the present.
The past as a forest that gives inspiration.
Explaining what an author means does not imply agreeing with him.
Flap and pulley are strongly linked together.
From immediate thought to a careful commentary process
Correspondences between opposites
The strange role of incense
Baudelaire could have a rather complicated intention.
An example that applies to a whole set of texts.
Lack of economy
Lack of rigor
Lack of irony in „Correspondences“
An acute sense of smell
An unjustified commentary
Reference to a remark in 583B
An easily understood preparation
Repetition and contradiction
A flap that is impossible.
Men and women
What the poet obtains.
Kinship between all things accessible to the five senses
Internal and external correspondences
Wide and coherent units
Similar words
How to set up the tally of errors.
The importance of erudition
Masterpieces that cannot be improved.
Dead people speaking.
Ridiculous anachronism
Petrus Borel
An art with a view to celebration
Listing the poems.
Petrus Borel again
„Romance of Fauvel“
Facetiousness
Losing one’s way.
Repeatedly occurring themes
The same idea in different guises
Naturally based technical things
What is unhelpful for science may be helpful for art.
Protection from references to the Great Masters of the Arts
Evil will or natural violence
Worship of beauty with realism
Perfumes and architecture
Cultural education of the child
Crossing of influences
Pillars and crosses
Rembrandt
Fusion of the clear and the obscure
Confusion of opposites in drunkenness
„the Vampire“
Intuitive rapprochement of feelings
From the sensitive to the moral
The new artist becomes a pillar.