Aesthetes and Decadents of the 1890s by Beckson, Karl -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Preface Second Edition Preface 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 Ballad Op a Barber The Story of Venus and TannhÄuser [with Illustrations]

Max Beerbohm

A Defence of Cosmetics A Letter to the Editor Diminuendo

Olive Custance (Lady Alfred Douglas)

Peacocks: A Mood The Masquerade Hyacinthus The White Statue Statues Candle-light

Lord Alfred Douglas

Apologia Two Loves Impression De Nuit Rejected 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 Damnées The Barber Le Voyage à Cythère Mishka

Lionel Johnson

The Cultured Faun The Church of a Dream Mystic and Cavalier To 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 Décadent 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 MÉlinite : Moulin Rouge Javanese Dancers By the Pool at the Third Rosses Hallucination: I Violet: Prelude From StÉphane MallarmÉ: HÉrodiade Preface to the Second Edition of Silhouettes: Being a Word on Behalf of Patchouli Preface to the Second Edition of London Nights

Oscar Wilde

The Decay of Lying: An Observation SalomÉ Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young Symphony in Yellow The Harlot’s House Impression Du Matin HÉlas! The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Theodore Wratislaw

From Caprices Opoponax Satiety Frangipani Palm Sunday From Orchids Orchids White Lilies Sonnet 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 Secret Rose 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

Robert Smythe Hichens:

From the Green Carnation

The Second Coming of Arthur

[a Satire of the Yellow Book] From Silverpoints

Biographical Notes Selected Bibliography