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The Dedalus book of English decadence : vile emperors and elegant degenerates / [edited by] James Willsher.
- Title
- The Dedalus book of English decadence : vile emperors and elegant degenerates / [edited by] James Willsher.
- Publication
- Sawtry : Dedalus ; Gardena, Calif. : Distributed in the US by SCB, 2004.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PN56.D45 D44 2004 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Willsher, James.
- Description
- 199 p.; 20 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Book of English decadence
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- English fiction – 19th century.
- English poetry – 19th century.
- Anthologie.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-199).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. Taedium vitae / Oscar Wilde -- 2. Passages from the history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire / Edward Gibbon -- 3. Lines written during a period of insanity / William Cowper -- 4. Extract from Vathek / William Beckford -- 5. Darkness / Lord Byron -- 6. A dream / Bryan Waller Procter ('Barry Cornwall') -- 7. Passages from The story of Prince Alasi and the Princess Firouzkah / William Beckford -- 8. Verses from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage : a romaunt / Lord Byron -- 9. On the medusa of Leonardo da Vinci in the Florentine gallery / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- 10. Verses from Endymion : a poetic romance / John Keats -- 11. Verses from The Giaour / Lord Byron -- 12. Extract from Confessions of an English opium-eater / Thomas De Quincey -- 13. Song / Thomas Lovell Beddoes -- 14. Verses from Lamia / John Keats -- 15. Thoughts during sickness, II : sickness like night / Felicia Dorothea Hemans -- 16. Tithonus / Alfred Tennyson -- 17. Body's beauty / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- 18. Verses from Anactoria / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- 19. Extract from the conclusion to Studies in the history of the Renaissance / Walter Pater -- 20. If you're anxious for to shine in the high aesthetic line from Patience / W. S. Gilbert -- 21. Dolores / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- 22. Helas! / Oscar Wilde -- 23. Passages from Confessions of a young man / George Moore -- 24. Nightmare from The city of dreadful night / James Thomson -- 25. Passages from Lesbia Brandon / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- 26. Passages from Denys L'Auxerrois / Walter Pater -- 27. Extract from The picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde -- 28. A last word / Ernest Dowson -- 29. The absinthe-drinker / Arthur Symons -- 30. Passages from The cultured faun / Lionel Johnson -- 31. The decadent to his soul / Richard Le Gallienne -- 32. Passages from A defence of cosmetics / Max Beerbohm -- 33. Dregs / Ernest Dowson -- 34. Nihilism / Lionel Johnson -- 35. The opium-smoker / Arthur Symons -- 36. Passages from The great god Pan / Arthur Machen -- 37. Poem / John Gray -- 38. Ennui / Alfred Douglas -- 39. Passages from Enoch Soames / Max Beerbohm -- 40. Stella Maris / Arthur Symons -- 41. Orchids / Theodore Wratislaw -- 42. Passages from The story of Venus and Tannhauser / Aubrey Beardsley -- 43. The barber / John Gray -- 44. The destroyer of a soul / John Davidson -- 45. Lucretia / James Elroy Flecker -- 46. Extract from The dead wall / H. B. Marriott Watson -- 47. Passion / Richard Garnett -- 48. Against my Lady Burton : on her burning the last writing of her dead husband / Ernest Dowson -- 49. In Bohemia / Arthur Symons -- App. English decadence elsewhere.
- ISBN
- 1903517265 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 53871005
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library