ABSTRACT
Samuel Macey has argued for the romantic poets-though not for the bourgeoisie whose lives tended to proceed with clockwork regularity-the Watchmaker God of the eighteenth century would become the clockwork devil. For none of the romantics was this reaction against bourgeois values more true than for Charles Baudelaire and for Edgar Allan Poe, by whom Baudelaire was so strongly influenced. Indeed, Baudelaire's translations of Poe date from 1856 to 1865. After a voyage to India and the dissipating of the patrimony that he inherited, Baudelaire spent much of the rest of his life living in miserable poverty in the literary and artistic quarters in Paris, haunted by exotic visions and memories. By night or by day, Baudelaire's hatred for the clockremains unequivocal.
