The Aesthetic and Decadent Movement of the late 19th century spawned the idea of ""Art for Art's Sake,"" challenged aesthetic standards and shocked the bourgeosie. From Walter Pater's study, ""The Renaissance to Salome, the truly decadent...
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The Aesthetic and Decadent Movement of the late 19th century spawned the idea of ""Art for Art's Sake,"" challenged aesthetic standards and shocked the bourgeosie. From Walter Pater's study, ""The Renaissance to Salome, the truly decadent collaboration between Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley, Karl Beckson has chosen a full spectrum of works that chronicle the British artistic achievement of the 1890s. In this revised edition of a classic anthology, ""The Ballad of Reading Gaol"" has been included in its entirety; the bibliography has been completely updated; Professor Beckson's notes and comm
Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Preface to the Second Edition ; Preface to the First Edition ; Contents; Introduction; John Barlas; Oblivion; The Memphian Temple; The Dancing Girl; Beauty's, Anadems; The Cat-Lady; Terrible Love; My Lady's Bath; Aubrey Beardsley; The Balled of a Barber; The Story of Venus and Tannhauser [with illustrations]; Max Beerbohm; A Defence of Cosmetics; A Letter to the Editor; Diminuendo; Olive Custance (Lady Alfred Douglas); Peacocks: A Mood; The Masquerade; Hyacihthus; The White Statue; Statues; Candle-Light; Lord Alfred Douglas; Apologia; Two Loves
Impression De NuitRejected; Ode to My Soul; The Dead Poet; Ernest Dowson; Nuns of the Perpetual Adoration; Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae; O Mors! Quam Amara Est Memoria ...; Villanelle of Sunset; Extreme Unction; Exile; Benedictio Domini; Spleen; A Last Word; Michael Field; From Baudelaire; The Poet; A Dance of Death; La Gioconda; A Dying Viper; John Gray; From Silverpoints; On a Picture; Poem; A Crucifix; Parsifal Imitated from the French of Paul Verlaine; Femmes Damnees; The Barber; Le Voyage a Cythere; Mishka; Lionel Johnson; The Cultured Faun; The Church of a Dream
Mystic and CavalierTo a Passionist; In Honorem Doriani Creatorisque Eius; The Destroyer of a Soul; The Dark Angel; Nihilism; A Decadent's Lyric; Richard Le gallienne; From English Poems; To the Reader; The Decadent to His Soul; Beauty Accurst; Sunset in the City; A Ballad of London; The Boom in Yellow; Arthur Symons; The Decadent Movement in Literature; Emmy; Maquillage; Morbidezza; Prologue: Before the Curtain; Prologue: In the Stalls; To a Dancer; La Melinite: Moulin Rouge; Javanese Dancers; By the Pool at the Third Rosses; Hallucination: I; Violet: Prelude
From Stephane Mallarme: HerodiadePreface to the Second Edition of Silbouettes: Being a Word on Behalf of Patchouli; Preface to the Second Edltion of London Nights; Oscar Wilde; The Decay of Lying: AN Observation; Salome [with Beardsley's Illustrations]; Phrases and Philosophies For the Use OF the Young; Symphony in Yellow; The Harlot's House; Impression Du Matin; Helas!; The Ballad of Reading Gaol; Theodore Wratislaw; from Caprices; Opoponax; Satiety; Frangipani; Palm Sunday; from Orchids; Orchids; White Lilies; Sonner Macabre; Hothouse Flowers; William Butler Yeats
The Lake Isle Of Innisfree.The White Birds; Rosa Mundi; To the Rose upon the Rood of time; O'sullivan Rua to Mary Lavell; The Song Of Wandering Aengus; Aedh Wishes for the cloths of Heaven; APPENDIX; Walter Pater:; from studies in the history of the Renaissance; Joris-Karl Huysmans:; from Against the Grain; The Secret Rose; Robert Smythe Hichens:; from the Green carnation; The Second Coming of Arthur [a satire of The Yellow Book]; from Silverpoints; Biographical Notes; Selected Bibliography
