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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 185477 136 1 174 x 110 mm 288 pages |
The Book of the Rhymers' Club 1892 W.B. Yeats called the Rhymers ‘Poets with whom I learned my trade,/ Companions of the Cheshire Cheese’. In an upper room of an ancient eating house in Fleet Street, a group of fourteen met to read and discuss their poems. Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, John Davidson, and Arthur Symons were among the members, and several Irishmen, including John Todhunter, T.W.Rolleston, and Yeats himself. The club met for less than five years, but in that time published these two collections of poems, chosen by a selection committee of four. In their introduction to this edition the editors examine the membership of the club, and show its central position in the literary history of the period. They also point to the number of poems of high quality in the two volumes. £32.50 $49.50 In the airy whirling wheel is the springing strength of steel |
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