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Decadents, Symbolists, Anti-Decadents
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A facsimile reprint in the Decadents.... series, edited by R.K.R.Thornton ISBN 1 85477 154 x 174 x 110 mm 148 pages |
VICTOR PLARR In the Dorian Mood 1896 Born in Strasbourg, son of a French father and an English mother, friend of Ernest Dowson, Victor Plarr became a member of the Rhymers’ Club in the 1890s and later of the Poets’ Club, founded in 1908 by Ezra Pound and T.E.Hulme. He was librarian of the Royal College of Surgeons, where Pound in ‘Hugh Selwyn Mauberley’ described him, ‘among the pickled foetuses and bottled bones’, as Monsieur Verog, ‘out of step with the decade,/ Detached from his contemporaries,/ Neglected by the young’. Pound spoke for the next generation, and Plarr was a survivor: the delicate verses of In the Dorian Mood belong firmly to the nineties. The title is taken from Milton, but may be a reference to Wilde. This little book contains all the poems by which he is likely to be remembered. £25 $48 Stand not uttering sedately |
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