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Decadent Poetry from Wilde to Naidu

By Arthur Symons

Decadent Poetry from Wilde to Naidu Social Sciences

Decadent Poetry from Wilde to Naidu

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The poems collected in this volume are exquisite and languorous expressions of a spirit of self-indulgence, eroticism and moral rebelliousness that emerged in the late Victorian age. They deal with eternal themes of transition, artifice and, above all, the cruel ravages of time - often depicting flowers, with their heady, perfumed beauty, as the embodiment of decay and desire. Decadent Poetry brings together the works of many fascinating writers - Oscar Wilde on tainted love and the torments of the human spirit, Arthur Symons on an absinthe-induced stupor and the mysteries of the night, Rosamund Marriott Watson on disenchantment and memory, W. B. Yeats on waning passion and faded beauty, Ernest Dowson on lust and despair and Lord Alfred Douglas on shame and secret love, among many others of this exhilarating poetic movement.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
208
Release Date:
2006-09-28
Publication Date:
2007-04-01
Publisher:
Penguin Random House UK
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
014042413X
ISBN13:
9780140424133
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
290 g
Height:
131 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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