Aesthetes and Decadents of the 1890's: An Anthology of British Poetry and Prose by Lionel Pigot Johnson, Karl E. Beckson, Robert Smythe Hichens, John Barlas, W.B. Yeats, Mostyn Piggot, Oscar Wilde, Olive Custance, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Ernest Dowson, Arthur Symons, Walter Pater, Richard Le Gallienne, Aubrey Beardsley, Max Beerbohm, Michael Field, Alfred Bruce Douglas, John Gray, Theodore Wratislaw

Aesthetes and Decadents of the 1890's: An Anthology of British Poetry and Prose

Lionel Pigot Johnson, Karl E. Beckson, Robert Smythe Hichens, John Barlas, W.B. Yeats, Mostyn Piggot, Oscar Wilde, Olive Custance, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Ernest Dowson, Arthur Symons, Walter Pater, Richard Le Gallienne, Aubrey Beardsley, Max Beerbohm, Michael Field, Alfred Bruce Douglas, John Gray, Theodore Wratislaw

337 pages • first pub 1981 (editions)

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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 collaborati...

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