Decadent Poetry from Wilde to Naidu

The poems collected in this volume are exquisite and languorous expressions of a spirit of self-indulgence, eroticism and moral rebelliousness that emerged in the late Victorian age. They deal with eternal themes of transition, artifice and, above all, the cruel ravages of time - often depicting flowers, with their heady, perfumed beauty, as the embodiment of decay and desire. Decadent Poetry brings together the works of many fascinating writers -...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 014042413X
• ISBN13: 9780140424133
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 3.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

First-rate edition

This book effectively defines the tradition of decadent poetry. The poems themselves, by such writers as Oscar Wilde and William Butler Yeats and Aubrey Beardsley, are fascinating (and impeccably edited). The editor's biographies at the book's end are also both remarkably illuminating and also engagingly written. Like many Penguin editions, an excellent value. Highly recommended.