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The Dedalus Book of English Decadence: Vile Emperors and Elegant Degenerates (2004) edited by James Willsher
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Overview: Vile emperors, reptiles and elegant degenerates of 1890s England surface as the Empire demonstrates that, like imperial Rome, the English could not run the world without becoming corrupt. In a response to the invention of the French, the English immersed themselves in luxury and decadence, documented by the likes of Byron, De Quincy and Wilde. This is an exploration of the perverse by acolytes and avatars at their most unwholesome.' DT in Buzz Magazine The Dedalus Book of English Decadence is a brilliant collection of hothouse prose including some names not usually associated with the fin de siecle. Independent on Sunday's Books of the Year
Genre: Fiction » General Fiction/Classics



CONTENTS:
INTRODUCTION
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, Lord 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 Sir W. S. Gilbert
21. DOLORES Algernon Charles Swinburne
22. HÉLAS! 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 Sir 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 Lord Alfred Douglas
39. Passages from ENOCH SOAMES Sir 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

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