Decadent Poetry from Wilde to Naidu
from Wilde to Naidu
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…
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Weitere Autoren: Dowson, Ernest / Davidson, John
- ISBN: 978-0-14-042413-3
- EAN: 9780140424133
- Produktnummer: 2192413
- Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B13.1 cm x D2.2 cm 290 g
- Gewicht: 290
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Lisa Rodensky is Assistant Professor of English at Wellesley College, and author of The Crime in Mind (OUP, 2003).Lisa Rodensky is Assistant Professor of English at Wellesley College, and author of The Crime in Mind (OUP, 2003).
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