Word: satanist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...invites comparison by printing Baudelaire's version on the opposite page. In some cases she thinks they have been able to give the literal equivalent. Some might think it queer that so ladylike a poet as Edna St. Vincent Millay should spend four months with such a tortured satanist as Charles Baudelaire. With a stamp of her foot she defies the lifted eyebrows: "It is impossible to make a good translation of a poet of whom one disapproves...