Barney’s literary output was comparatively meager, perhaps because she did not care to publish too tangible evidence of her emotional bent. The complete record of publication is as follows: _Quelques Sonnets et Portraits de Femmes_ (1900), described by critics as sensuous poems of restrained passion; _The Woman who Lives with Me_—possibly a version in English of the novel Louÿs criticized—listed without date as a “roman abrégé, hors commerce”; _Cinq Petits Dialogues Grecs_, printed in the periodical _La Plume_, 1901; _The City of the Flowers_, “poème avec enlumières, à un seul exemplaire”; _Actes et Entr’actes_, 1910; _Poèmes—Autres Alliances_, 1920; _Pensées d’une Amazone_, and _Aventures de l’Esprit_, 1929, both in prose. She is probably best remembered in French letters for having inspired two volumes by Remy de Gourmont, _Lettres à l’Amazone_, essays which first ran serially in the _Mercure de France_ and were translated into English by Richard Aldington (1931), and _Lettres Intimes à l’Amazone_, 1927.[8] The first volume, comparatively impersonal, includes considerable analysis of Barney’s temperament, which has ‘the superiority of a profoundly pagan spirit, determined to obey Nature only in so far as it gives its consent.’ This, Gourmont says, is ‘so different from ... Christian morality that ... some courage is needed to express it so openly and so strongly.’ He defines as “chaste” any action prompted by Love rather than by what Verlaine calls ‘the obscene mechanism,’ and observes that women, who feel passion only when they love, are spared men’s bondage to ‘that tyrant, sexual need.’ He says that l’Amazone sets out to conquer without coquetry or any other passive or impulsive feminine motivation, and he judges her self-willed and egotistic.[9] Both he and the feminine commentators mentioned above, picture Barney as merciless in her intellectual judgments, wanting in tenderness, impatient of men, and scornful of all who abandon themselves to their emotions. Despite Gourmont’s analytic clarity, in the _Lettres Intimes_ we find the spontaneous record of what he terms “une amitié violente,” springing from Barney’s being not only “une amie mais un ami.” His volume includes a good bit of his own verse, “des poésies sapphiques” about two women of ancient Greece written earlier but not previously published, and several poems to Barney herself, whom he describes as “un page et une femme ... Natalie qui aimes tes soeurs et tes pareilles, Plus que toi même, et plus que tout, l’Amour ... Natalie préférant bure et cuire à la soie, Natalie souriante au bord de la géhenne.”[10]