Literary Rogues (34 page)

39
Many innocent girls become the dupes
: Mary Wollstonecraft,
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
(London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1891), p. 119.

39
wild and unearthly
: Thomas Jefferson Hogg,
The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley
, Vol. 2 (London: Edward Moxon, 1858), pp. 166–7.

40
To promise forever to love
: Percy Bysshe Shelley,
Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem, with Notes
(New York: Wright & Owen, 1831), p. 69.

40
never loved her nor pretended to
: Margot Strickland,
The Byron Women
(London: P. Owen, 1974), p. 133.

41
I saw the hideous phantasm
: Julian Marshall,
The Life & Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
, Vol. 1 (London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1889), p. 142.

41
chimeras of boundless grandeur
: Mary Shelley,
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
(London: George Routledge and Sons, 1891), p. 63.

42
democrat, great lover of mankind
: Edmund Blunden,
On Shelley
(London: Oxford University Press, 1838), p. 43.

43
the writer of some infidel poetry
:
The Courier
, August 5, 1822, p. 3.

44
The impression of the first few minutes
: Marguerite Blessington,
Conversations of Lord Byron
, pp. 1–2.

44
done with women
: Blessington,
The Works of Lady Blessington
, Vol. 2, p. 252.

45
have blown my brains out
: Thomas Moore,
Letters and Journals of Lord Byron with Notices of His Life
, Vol. 2 (London: John Murray, 1830), p. 72.

45
composition is a great pain
: Ibid., p. 436.

45
those who are intent only on the beaten road
: Marguerite Blessington,
The Works of Lady Blessington
, Vol. 1 (Philadelphia: E. L. Carey and A. Hart, 1838), p. 265.

45
speculations of those mere dreamers
: Rowland E. Prothero, ed.,
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters & Journals
, Vol. 3 (London: John Murray, 1899), p. 405.

45
If I had to live over again
: Rowland E. Prothero, ed.,
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters & Journals, Vol. 5
(London: John Murray, 1904), p. 456.

46
genius, like greatness
: Blessington,
Conversations of Lord Byron
, p. 184.

6: AMERICAN GOTHIC

47
Men have called me mad
: Edgar Allan Poe, “Eleonora,”
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
(New York: Vintage Books, 1975), p. 649.

47
The history of American writers
: Alfred Kazin, “‘The Giant Killer': Drink and the American Writer,”
Commentary
(March 1976): 49.

48
a worm inside that would not die
: Edgar Allan Poe,
Histoires Extraordinaires par Edgar Poe
, trans. and introduction, Charles Baudelaire (Paris: Michel Lévy Frères, 1856), p. xxvi.

48
I have absolutely no pleasure
: John H. Ingram,
Edgar Allan Poe: His Life, Letters, and Opinions
(London: Ward, Lock, Bowden, 1891), pp. 174–175.

48
I do believe God gave me a spark of genius
: Mary Elizabeth Phillips,
Edgar Allan Poe, The Man
(Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1926), p. xi.

49
I could not love except where
: Ingram,
Edgar Allan Poe: His Life, Letters, and Opinions
, p. 83.

49
His whole nature was reversed
: Rufus Wilmot Griswold,
The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe with a Memoir
, Vol. 1 (New York: Bedfield, 1857), p. xvii.

50
Edgar A. Perry
: G. E. Woodberry, “Poe's Legendary Years,”
Atlantic Monthly
54 (1884): 819.

50
I left West Point two days ago
: Dwight Thomas and David Kelly Jackson,
The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe, 1809–1849
(Boston: G. K. Hall, 1987), p. 115.

50
I went to bed and wept through
: Ingram,
Edgar Allan Poe: His Life, Letters, and Opinions
, p. 393.

51
I am perishing
: John Ward Ostrom, ed.,
The Letters of Edgar Allan Poe
, Vol. 1 (New York: Gordian Press, 1966), p. 50.

51
Mr. Poe was a fine gentleman when he was sober
: Thomas and Jackson,
The Poe Log
, p. 168.

52
I believe that I am making a sensation
: William Fearing Gill,
The Life of Edgar Allan Poe
(New York: W. J. Widdleton, 1880), p. 120.

52
unless he is famous
: Ingram,
Edgar Allan Poe: His Life, Letters, and Opinions
, p. 313.

53
women fell under his fascination
: Elizabeth Oakes Smith,
Selections From the Autobiography of Elizabeth Oakes (Prince) Smith
(New York: Arno Press, 1980), p. 88.

53
My feelings at this moment
: Ingram,
Edgar Allan Poe: His Life, Letters, and Opinions
, p. 103.

53
I never heard him speak
: H. L. Mencken, ed.,
The American Mercury
, Vol. 29 (New York: B. W. Huebsch), p. 452.

53
I will be your guardian angel
: Phillips,
Edgar Allan Poe, the Man
, Vol. 2, p. 111.

53
The death of a beautiful woman
: Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter,
Introduction to American Literature
(Boston: Sibley & Ducker, 1897), p. 381.

53
Six years ago, a wife
: Ingram,
Edgar Allan Poe: His Life, Letters, and Opinions
, p. 174.

54
I am getting better, and may add
: Ibid., p. 318.

54
did violence to my own heart
: James A. Harrison, ed.,
The Last Letters of Edgar Allan Poe to Sarah Helen Whitman
(New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1909), p. 22.

54
Ah, how profound is my love for you
: Ingram,
Edgar Allan Poe: His Life, Letters, and Opinions
, p. 375.

55
It is no use to reason with me now
: John Ward Ostrom, ed.,
The Letters of Edgar Allan Poe
, Vol. 2 (New York: Gordian Press, 1966), p. 452.

55
rather the worse for wear
: John Howard Raymond,
Life and Letters of John Howard Raymond
(New York: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert, 1881), p. 328.

55
almost a suicide
: Charles Baudelaire,
Baudelaire on Poe: Critical Papers
, trans. Lois and Francis E. Jr. Hyslop (State College, Pennsylvania: Bald Eagle Press, 1952), p. 101.

55
alcohol, cholera, drugs
: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe (retrieved June 27, 2012).

56
Hic tandemi felicis
: Eugene L. Didler, “The Grave of Poe,”
Appleton's Journal
, January 27, 1872.

56
Edgar Allan Poe is dead
: Rufus Griswold (writing as “Ludwig”), “Death of Edgar Allan Poe,”
New York Daily Tribune
, October 9, 1849, p. 2.

7: THE REALISTS

57
Vocations which we wanted to pursue
: Eugene Ehrlich and Marshall De Bruhl,
The International Thesaurus of Quotations
(New York: HarperCollins, 1996), p. 730.

57
Don't force me to do anything
: Richard Davenport-Hines,
The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics
(New York: W. W. Norton, 2004). p. 90.

57
Above all else, we were
artists
: Ibid., p. 91.

58
Women one and all have condemned me
: Honoré de Balzac,
The Magic Skin and Other Stories
, trans. Ellen Marriage (Boston: Dana Estes, 1899), p. 81.

58
immense and sole desires
: Katharine Prescott Wormeley,
A Memoir of Honoré de Balzac
(Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892), p. 44.

59
The pleasure of striking out
: Balzac,
The Magic Skin and Other Stories
, p. 88.

59
do anything, no matter what
: Wormeley,
A Memoir of Honoré de Balzac
, p. 40.

60
I am about to become a genius
: Ibid., p. 83.

60
Coffee is a great power in my life
: Honoré de Balzac, “The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee,” trans. Robert Onopa,
Michigan Quarterly Review
35, no. 2 (Spring 1996): 273.

60
heard some celestial voices
: Davenport-Hines,
The Pursuit of Oblivion
, p. 96.

60
The streets of Paris possess human qualities
: Samuel Rogers,
Balzac & the Novel
(New York: Octagon Books, 1969), p. 45.

61
The majority of husbands
: Robert I. Fitzhenry,
The Harper Book of Quotations
(New York: HarperCollins, 1993), p. 280.

61
not precisely beautiful
: Mary F. Sandars,
Honoré de Balzac: His Life and Writings
(New York: Dodd, Mead, 1905), p. 171.

61
All great men are monsters
: Honoré de Balzac,
Lost Illusions: The Two Poets Eve and David
, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1893), p. 365.

61
beautiful unknown women
: Graham Robb,
Balzac: A Biography
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1996), p. 281.

61
rather tiresome
: Ibid.

62
Since you have read his novels
: Ibid., p. 282.

62
My heart, soul, and ambition
: Sandars,
Honoré de Balzac: His Life and Writings
, p. 325.

62
Three days ago I married
: Ibid., p. 339.

63
There are no noble subjects
: Gustave Flaubert,
The Selected Letters of Gustave Flaubert
, trans. Francis Steegmuller (New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1954), p. 131.

63
I pass entire weeks
: Aimee L. McKenzie, trans.,
The George Sand–Gustave Flaubert Letters
(New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922), p. 46.

64
that poor sucker Flaubert
: Marion Capron,
Dorothy Parker
,
The Art of Fiction No. 13, The Paris Review
(Summer 1956).

64
all without taking my cigar out of my mouth
: Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt,
The Goncourt Journals, 1851–1870
(New York: Doubleday, 1958), p. 198.

64
this mode of ejaculation
: Davenport-Hines,
The Pursuit of Oblivion
, p. 93.

64
Hatred of the bourgeois
: McKenzie, trans.,
The George Sand–Gustave Flaubert Letters
, p. 66.

65
Does the reading of such a book
: Gustave Flaubert,
The Works of Gustave Flaubert
(New York: Walter J. Black, 1904), p. 277.

65
You can calculate the worth of a man
: Elizabeth M. Knowles,
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
(London: Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 316.

65
What a brave man she was
: Lady Ritchie,
Blackstick Papers
(London: Smith, Elder, 1908), p. 243.

66
too imperious a machine
: Natalie Datlof, Jeanne Fuchs, and David A. Powell,
The World of George Sand
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991), p. xix.

66
There is only one happiness in life
: André Maurois,
Lélia: The Life of George Sand
(New York: Penguin Books, 1977), p. 482.

66
in the theater or in your bed
: Renee Winegarten,
The Double Life of George Sand, Woman and Writer
(New York: Basic Books, 1978), p. 116.

66
She has a grasp of mind
: E. C. Gaskell,
The Life of Charlotte Brontë
, Vol. 2 (Leipzig, Germany: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1857), p. 48.

67
brother George
: Wormeley,
A Memoir of Honoré de Balzac
, p. 254.

67
Spare yourself a little
: McKenzie, trans.,
The George Sand–Gustave Flaubert Letters
, p. 48.

67
Not to love is to cease to live
: Ibid., p. 213.

67
charming profession
: Ibid., p. 46.

67
I believe that the crowd
: Ibid., p. 208.

67
The world will know and understand
: Curtis Cate,
George Sand: A Biography
(New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1975), p. 276.

8: THE FLESHLY SCHOOL

69
in evil lies all pleasure
: F. W. J. Hemmings,
Baudelaire the Damned: A Biography
(New York: Bloomsbury Reader, 2011), Kindle edition: location 4213.

69
Women write and write
: Charles Baudelaire,
Fatal Destinies: The Edgar Poe Essays
, trans. Joan Fiedler Mele (Woodhaven, NY: Cross Country Press, 1981), p. 37.

69
dashes off her masterpieces
: Warren U. Ober, ed.,
The Enigma of Poe
(Boston: D. C. Heath, 1969), p. 130.

70
At school I read
: Hemmings,
Baudelaire the Damned
, Kindle location 682.

70
The moment has come
: A. E. Carter,
Charles Baudelaire
(Woodbridge, CT: Twayne Publishers, 1977), p. 31.

71
weakness for loose ladies
: Hemmings,
Baudelaire the Damned
, Kindle location 755.

71
mistress of mistresses
: Charles Baudelaire,
The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire
(New York: Brentano's, 1919), p. 19.

72
so as to have peace and quiet
: Hemmings,
Baudelaire the Damned
, Kindle location 2411.