A PLAQUE MARKS
THE SPOT. **
The playground fighter turned
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to poetry
London.
JOHN KEATS;
[LVEDINTHIS HOUSE
3: 17930
0: 18207
What the plaque says.
his master,
the neighbourhood of ship to a surgeon. But his pro- Moorgate they had a pensities for thyming induced. It high
said, by Spenser's Faer opinion of the boy is
Queene, resulted in a quarrel John Keats, He described
with
and broken ind of extraordinary indentures, melte. "like a prize-fighter Kents now lived alone, in various lodgings, while he con- for his terrier courage," and known for his "high- uel surgical studies at
Guy's Hospitals, for
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mindedness, his utter un- conscicusness of it 'mean motive, his placability, his generosity."
Most of hi time at school WUM spent in fighting. For four years he ruled the play- ground.
Then came a change, and for two years no one could tear, him
from his books,
of his mother, The death rheumatic sufferer, whom hnd nursed with extreme devo lion, caused his withdrawal From school, and his apprentice-
The plaque over the door shows where Keals Ilveel.
united
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1953.
HIS AIM: TO SHOCK
BAUDELAIRE, By P. Mansell
Jones. Bowes and Bowes. 61. 63 pagos.
THE
HE clean-shaven young MAN who looked like an intellectual prlest Wax dressed in a workman's blouse which, however, had been made for him by an excellent
tailor. He brandished a fine, double barrelled gun just looted from a gunsmith's shop and kept shouting to the mob around him: "We must kill General Aupick."
Thomas's and which
.were then teaching purposes.
At the age of 23 Keats brought
He was rather drunk. out a volume of poems thai at-
The year was 1840, the scene tracted ille attention. Un- dismayed, he procisced Endym-Paris during the working-class ton. *Thi was bitterly at-revolt against the middle-class tacked.
king. Louis Philippe. The young man with the gun was Charles Plerre Baudelaire, destined be the greatest French poet of
19th century.
General
Deeply in love
·
to
Keats was 25 when the on-the sumption to which his familyAuplek was his stepfather. was addicted showed itself in him.
His thrunt was never well, he was distractedly in love
Juve Fanny Brawne without prospects; When Baudelaire was
born the erities had brought his name
(1821) his father was a man of into contempl, and money trou 2 who died a few years later. bles were pressing hard. He left is mother. a pretty, very In Italy in September 1829, and feminine. gushingly religious died at Home un February 23, young woman, recovered quickly 1821
at the age of 20.
from her grief to From December 1813 to 1920 dashing Auplek who Keats lived in Wentworth Place. brilliant career in diplomacy. Hampstead which in is day Haudelaire,
who loved his comprised two houses, the other mother with abnormal passion, brentworth Dilke.
accipled by
Charles never forgave her this marriage. The supplanting Aupick he was opened in detested heartily. Soon he had The building 1031 as Keats's House
is reason for it. memorial to the poct. But as After seeking a civil service
carly us 1800 u' plaque was affix- † post for his
marry
stepson,
had
the
HOW LUCKY THAT M. BAUDELAIRE.
MISSED THE CIVIL SERVICE
the youth Insisted on becoming liking with him
4 writer.
When he came into his patri-
many al 21, Baudelaire spent half of it in a year. Auplek then summoned a family coun- ell and had the money put un trust. A lawyer named Ancelle was appointed guardian, em- much powered to dole out maney so
ຕ month. Baudelaire stormed put at he the council, awearing that would kill himself.
His main anxiety, however, was to avenge himself on his stepfather by winning fame and
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notorious prostitute, whom he introduced as his wife. When one of his hosts expostulated, Baudelaire replied, "Sir, the mistress of a poet may be as good as the wife of a nolary." He did not get the job.
He expected-for he had no sense of reallifes that hi volume of poems, The Flowers of Evil, would have inmense success.
The poems, of an Intense and omine power, were calculated to shock-und to last.
The author was
Prosecuted
the
Academy
und courted powerful esitle, Sainte-Beuve, with
prescuts pf English gingerbread to which the great $or เกม partial. Baudelaire did not get a vote.
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He died, aged 46, in a private sylum la Paris; for a year, he had been unable to spruk. The wage of sin were paid in full. His frame gilt Jurked in the future.
Baudelaire wrote French-bui not for young people-with majesty that few have matched. sin, He was a psychologist of whose love affairs were few inch Fordid; u lay theologian believed with absolutc who
fortune with bis pen. for "deliberate exaltation of conviction only in the devil.
George Malcolm Thomson on BOOKS
he
He had three hatreds freethinkers, rollways and de- mocracy he could not bear to be ruled by a hundred million kings.
of
won Notoriety
by his the senses by a realism offen- fastidious dress-"like a secre- sive to public morality." To
Mansell Jones, indicating the tary at the British Embassy" his astonishment he was found outlines of his life, provides his white, womanish
in this short essay (printed in hands guilty, fined 300 francs,
rather small type) a perceptive with long, painted, clean nails;
He maintained that it was all guide to by his outrageous remarks in
the meaning Briti cafes,
e.g. (lo
this extraordinary perfect" great misunderstanding" and quality 0 stranger): "My dear sir, have that bls poems were In truth man. you ever eaten the brains of profoundly religious and moral. dog?" and by his
mulatio The misunderstanding remains. mistress, Jeanne Duval.
Baudelaire has been called "Catholic poet," and She was
always rupacious,
"Satanist." sometimes unfaithful and fre- quently drunk. In exasperation, Baudelaire hammered the floor with her head.
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· THE ISLAND. By Jean He himself put the doubt Matheson, Collins, 10s. 6d. neatly, when complaining that 255 paces. Well-shaped, eastly someone had missed the written novel about two men She soon lost the charm
of religious strain in The Flowers named MacArdal. One lives in figuro which had captivated of Evil, he said, "Does anyone Sretland, the other in New attached to ker; she
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 1 Furrow, 4 Score, 7: him but he remained somehow exist more catholic than the York. They decide to change Master. 3 Smash, 10 Lair, 12 Resover, 13 Rabid, 10 Scre, 17 lives. The Island tells what Aped, 10 Deter, 20 Resided, 21 Stop, 23 Spats, 24 Toucan, 25 la of revenge on his mother.
happened to the American Crass, 26 Shells, Down: 1 Famillar, 2 Respires; 3 Open, 5 Com- only when Aupick brought
MacArda! in
Hebridean poses, Rasher, 8 Ceded, 11 Radiates, 12 Rider, 13 Verfioni, 14 "Love," he said, "is a crime in brother to stay.
land.
ed by the Royal Seriely of Arte. I did not hide his contempt when
TAKE A
WORD
TO INCREASE YOUR
OWN VOCABULARY
AGONIST
YES.
JES, cach gizi swimmer in this picture is an AGONIST and so is anyone who competes in A apart before an audience. For that is what thin rarely used word means. Shorter than "particl pant more sweeping than athlete," covering both amateur and professional — the word has every advantage except that I suggests "Agony." Indeed, both come from the Greek word for a context. The girls here are Olymple swimmers
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
TEACHING HIS WIFE TO DRIVE
END OF FIRST (AND LAST) LESSON.
DRIVING
SCHOOL
EXPERT INSTRUCTO:
He Jeft her
her
was
their
A devil?"
With she
apparent blas phamics and their perversities, their obsession with sex and their loathing of sex, the poems preach in despair a sermon on the text: "The wages of sin is death, or at least ennul."
As
which we cannot do without an accomplice."
With Mme Sabatler, the
Baudelaire's friendliest plump, blond mistress of u
reviewer said, "Only two decl- banker, The Boet had a love sions are open to this poet, to affal of a different kindl. For become a Christian or to blow five years he rent her
out his brains." poems anonymously.
When at last she responded to this curious courtship, Baudelaire began to beat a re- treat. "A few days ago." he told her, "you were a divinity:
Forming a passionate admira- tion for Edgar Allan Poc, "master of the horrible," Baudelaire spent years of his life in translating Poe, He wrote book on drug-taking called Artlaciai
Paradiscs, and wos The affair remained platonic, furious when his publisher pro- In the end, was humiliating for posed" to insert
an advertise- both parties. Mme Sabatier ment for a pharmacy. kept a sketch of the creole Fleeing from creditors, Jeanne Duval; on it she had wellten, "his ideal."
now you are a woman."
went to Belgium on a lecture tour; it Was a humiliating failure. The Belglons, who has hentd lurid tates of this sean- dalous author, were bewildered by his sober, and spotless
Baudelaire's hopes of making money were as unlucky us ht amour. Hls ideas about pro- moting his cause were peculiar. Offered a post as editor on a
elegance. provincial newspaper, he went He insisted on becoming
dinc with the directors, candidate
for
the French
to
IEI HAD SOME. I'D REMOVE
HIM.
Teaching Turmoil
́OH MY!
NOW WHAT?
hey you
GRADE SCHOOL|
TEACHER. SPENDS MOST OF HER TIME
CONFISCATING
SIX-SHOOTERS!
AND.
RAY GUNS.
"THIS DEMONSTRATOR
CAN ALWAYS GET EAGER PUPILS.
"OH DEAR!?
I NEVER
EXPECTED THIS!"
WOULD-YOU-
MIND EXPLAINING
THAT AGAIN?
WEINERT COM 193 BY GENERAL FEATURES
CORP. THE WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED,
"
NEW FORMULA
MAGIC
SPOT
EMOVER
FREE
MONS
AS USUAL IN THESE CASES THE PUPIL EXCELS THE TEACHER.
THE MUSIC TEACHER- HE TAKES ASPIRIN AND. YEARNS FOR EAR MUFERS
1
his
Responds, 18 Pepper, 22 Bolh.
YOU WERE
RIDING A MOTOR CYCLE
IN A THEATRE
- THIS DREAM MEANS: Motorcycling is a fast and noisy modo of solo travelling. Riding a motorcycle before an audience symbolises the desire to live your own life in a showy, ostentatiouş, fast-moving
way
The man in pyjamas is the exhibitionistlo part of your own personality. Casting off clothes or being under-dressed for the "peca-
THEN A MAN IN PYJAMAS CAME DOWN FROM THE
STAGE AND RODE ON YOUR HANDLEBARS.
{Banned Herables
Rion-symbolisés auf'éthibitishisite “destre for self-display. This part of your personality rides your handlebars, Le., guides your motives and direction.
"Personality" boys - more interested · in
7 what they seem than what they are-can .be very amusing, even
short convincing, for a time. But one quickly tires of those who crave attention but rarely give any.
Is it time you' piped', downT
BY HARRY WEINERT
ART. TEACHER SHE RATES THEM ALL 100 PERCENT IN ARTISTIC TEMPERAMENT.
GO GET IT-
BOY!"
BASIC TRAINING,
HE SHOULD
LEARN BARKING.-
I'M NO MIND READER.
TEACHING THE PUP A FEW TRICKS
SNAPSHOT
GUILD
THETHER you go away close to your
W or stay
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But whether you're using your camera at home or on a trip, you'll find it's a good idea to follow three simple Tules which a photofinisher mention- ed to me several weeks
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• Thren-look caretunya ing yours camera's_view "Ander, before you shoot. My photofinisher friend, main- tena that feo, many pictures sto) marred by a jumbled, confusing”. background which; detracts from ul pretty: subject, er bra bra ich on felephone pole which seems to grow from some part of the body, Them things are exsally avoided by studying? each picture for a. tuoment," before, you thout to make sure that: your -backgrounds; are pimple and, plain.
Een your week-end picture
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