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The Decadent Image: The Poetry of Wilde, Symons and Dowson

The Decadent Image: The Poetry of Wilde, Symons and Dowson

Boyiopoulos, Kostas

Hardcover

Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

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ISBN10: 0748690921
ISBN13: 9780748690923
Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Published: May 17 2015
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Explores culturally significant encounters between sensuality and artificiality in the poetry of Wilde, Symons, and Dowson.
This book enquires into the problem of venerating artificiality and the inaccessibility of beauty associated with it whilst engaging in the sensuous, immediate experience as it is advocated by Walter Pater. It examines for the first time together poems by three protagonists of the 1890s: Oscar Wilde, Arthur Symons, and Ernest Dowson. It sees their poems as sites where the self sensually collides with or is immersed in their artifice. This is understood through the shift from Aestheticism to Decadence, which is marked by a greater emphasis on heterodox erotic experience. This study examines Wilde's early poetry and its role in triggering this shift. It shows how the idea of an erotic encounter with artifice reaches its apex in Symons, and how in Dowson it ripens into vexed non-encounters.

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