Author: Holbrook Jackson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The Eighteen Nineties
Author: Holbrook Jackson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The Eighteen Nineties
Author: Holbrook Jackson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Enoch Soames: A Memory of The Eighteen-Nineties
Author: Max Beerbohm
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
"When a book about the literature of the eighteen-nineties was given by Mr. Holbrook Jackson to the world, I looked eagerly in the index for Soames, Enoch. It was as I feared: he was not there. But everybody else was. Many writers whom I had quite forgotten, or remembered but faintly, lived again for me, they and their work, in Mr. Holbrook Jackson's pages. The book was as thorough as it was brilliantly written. And thus the omission found by me was an all the deadlier record of poor Soames's failure to impress himself on his decade." -an excerpt
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
"When a book about the literature of the eighteen-nineties was given by Mr. Holbrook Jackson to the world, I looked eagerly in the index for Soames, Enoch. It was as I feared: he was not there. But everybody else was. Many writers whom I had quite forgotten, or remembered but faintly, lived again for me, they and their work, in Mr. Holbrook Jackson's pages. The book was as thorough as it was brilliantly written. And thus the omission found by me was an all the deadlier record of poor Soames's failure to impress himself on his decade." -an excerpt
The Eighteen Nineties
Author: Holbrook Jackson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The Eighteen-nineties
Author: Martin Secker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Journal of the Eighteen Nineties Society
Author: Eighteen Nineties Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The Decadent Poetry of the Eighteen-nineties
Author: John Murchison Munro
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Passionate Attitudes
Author: Matthew Sturgis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781843680734
Category : Decadence (Literary movement)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Eighteen Nineties have become legendary: the period of Wilde, Beardsley and the Yellow Book; a decadent twilight at the close of the Victorian century, when young poets--weary of life--sat about drinking absinthe and talking of strange sins. The provenance of this beguiling picture is peculiar, for the myth of the Decadent Nineties was created during the period itself. It was an age of artistic self-consciousness, during which writers and painters believed that they had to create not only their works but also their personalities. In Passionate Attitudes, Matthew Sturgis examines the varying extents to which ambitious poets, penurious painters, canny publishers and a controversialist press all conspired to promote the notion of decadence. He explores in detail the cataclysmic effect upon English decadence of the spectacular trial and subsequent conviction of Wilde in 1895, a fall which was to cast a blight over the whole generation. As well as the luminaries Wilde, Beardsley and Beerbohm, Sturgis portrays Arthur Symons, the poet of the music halls, who divided his energies between promoting Verlaine and chasing after chorus girls; Ernest Dowson, the demoralized romantic of the Rhymers Club; Count Erik Stenbock, who kept a snake up his sleeve and went mad; and John Gray, who may have been the model for Wilde's Dorian. John Lane published most of their books; Owen Seaman and Ada Leverson parodied their manners. Elegantly written, Passionate Attitudes provides a hugely informative and richly entertaining account of the zeitgeist behind the glorious decade of excess.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781843680734
Category : Decadence (Literary movement)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Eighteen Nineties have become legendary: the period of Wilde, Beardsley and the Yellow Book; a decadent twilight at the close of the Victorian century, when young poets--weary of life--sat about drinking absinthe and talking of strange sins. The provenance of this beguiling picture is peculiar, for the myth of the Decadent Nineties was created during the period itself. It was an age of artistic self-consciousness, during which writers and painters believed that they had to create not only their works but also their personalities. In Passionate Attitudes, Matthew Sturgis examines the varying extents to which ambitious poets, penurious painters, canny publishers and a controversialist press all conspired to promote the notion of decadence. He explores in detail the cataclysmic effect upon English decadence of the spectacular trial and subsequent conviction of Wilde in 1895, a fall which was to cast a blight over the whole generation. As well as the luminaries Wilde, Beardsley and Beerbohm, Sturgis portrays Arthur Symons, the poet of the music halls, who divided his energies between promoting Verlaine and chasing after chorus girls; Ernest Dowson, the demoralized romantic of the Rhymers Club; Count Erik Stenbock, who kept a snake up his sleeve and went mad; and John Gray, who may have been the model for Wilde's Dorian. John Lane published most of their books; Owen Seaman and Ada Leverson parodied their manners. Elegantly written, Passionate Attitudes provides a hugely informative and richly entertaining account of the zeitgeist behind the glorious decade of excess.
Enoch Soames
Author: Sir Max Beerbohm
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781502880000
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
"[...]had another book coming out soon. I asked if I might ask what kind of book it was to be. "My poems," he answered. Rothenstein asked if this was to be the title of the book. The poet meditated on this suggestion, but said he rather thought of giving the book no title at all. "If a book is good in itself—" he murmured, and waved his cigarette. Rothenstein objected that absence of title might be bad for the sale of a book. "If," he urged, "I went into a bookseller's and said simply, 'Have you got?' or, 'Have you a copy of?' how would they know what I wanted?" "Oh, of course I should have my name on the cover," Soames answered earnestly. "And I rather want," he added, looking hard at Rothenstein, "to have a drawing of myself as frontispiece." Rothenstein admitted that this was a capital idea, and mentioned that he was going into the country and would be there for some time. He then looked at his watch, exclaimed at the hour, paid the waiter, and went away with me to dinner. Soames remained at his post of fidelity to the glaucous witch. "Why were you so determined not to draw him?" I asked.[...]".
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781502880000
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
"[...]had another book coming out soon. I asked if I might ask what kind of book it was to be. "My poems," he answered. Rothenstein asked if this was to be the title of the book. The poet meditated on this suggestion, but said he rather thought of giving the book no title at all. "If a book is good in itself—" he murmured, and waved his cigarette. Rothenstein objected that absence of title might be bad for the sale of a book. "If," he urged, "I went into a bookseller's and said simply, 'Have you got?' or, 'Have you a copy of?' how would they know what I wanted?" "Oh, of course I should have my name on the cover," Soames answered earnestly. "And I rather want," he added, looking hard at Rothenstein, "to have a drawing of myself as frontispiece." Rothenstein admitted that this was a capital idea, and mentioned that he was going into the country and would be there for some time. He then looked at his watch, exclaimed at the hour, paid the waiter, and went away with me to dinner. Soames remained at his post of fidelity to the glaucous witch. "Why were you so determined not to draw him?" I asked.[...]".
Degeneration
Author: Max Simon Nordau
Publisher: London, Heinemann
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Publisher: London, Heinemann
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description