The Dedalus Book of English Decadence: Vile Emperors and Elegant Degenerates 9781909232846, 190923284X

Table of contents :
Cover
Title
The Editor
Acknowledgements
Contents
Introduction
1 Taedium Vitae
2 Passages from the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
3 Lines Written During a Period of Insanity
4 Extract from Vathek
5 Darkness
6 A Dream
7 Passages from the Story of Prince Alasi and the Princess Firouzkah
8 Verses from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt
9 On the Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery
10 Verses from Endymion: A Poetic Romance
11 Verses from the Giaour
12 Extract from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
13 Song
14 Verses from Lamia. 15 Thoughts During Sickness II. Sickness Like Night16 Tithonus
17 Body's Beauty
18 Verses from Anactoria
19 Extract from the Conclusion to Studies in the History of the Renaissance
20 If You're Anxious for to Shine in the High Aesthetic Line from Patience
21 Dolores (Notre Dame des Sept Douleurs)
22 Hélas!
23 Passages from Confessions of a Young Man
24 Nightmare from the City of Dreadful Night
25 Passages from Lesbia Brandon
26 Passages from Denys L'auxerrois
27 Extract from the Picture of Dorian Gray
28 A Last Word
29 The Absinthe-Drinker
30 Passages from the Cultured Faun. 31 The Decadent to His Soul32 Passages from a Defence of Cosmetics
33 Dregs
34 Nihilism
35 The Opium-Smoker
36 Passages from the Great God Pan
37 Poem
38 Ennui
39 Passages from Enoch Soames
40 Stella Maris
41 Orchids
42 Passages from the Story of Venus and Tannhauser
43 The Barber
44 The Destroyer of a Soul
45 Lucretia
46 Extract from the Dead Wall
47 Passion
48 Against My Lady Burton: On Her Burning the Last Writing of Her Dead Husband
49 In Bohemia
Appendix: English Decadence Elsewhere
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