Decadent Poetry from Wilde to Naidu

Davidson, John (Author)/ Dowson, Ernest (Author)/ Symons, Arthur (Author)

ISBN 10: 014042413X / ISBN 13: 9780140424133

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2006

384 pages. 7.75x5.25x1.00 inches. In Stock. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 014042413X

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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.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Lisa Rodensky is Assistant Professor of English at Wellesley College, and author of The Crime in Mind (OUP, 2003). .

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Decadent Poetry from Wilde to Naidu
Verlag: Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Brand New