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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 160 4 174 x 11 0mm 136 pages |
THEODORE WRATISLAW Caprices 1893 bound with Theodore Wratislaw (1871-1933) contributed to The Yellow Book and The Savoy, playing the role of nineties poet through the Wilde era then virtually ceasing to publish as the new century began. His poems reflect contradictory attitudes to the relationship of art to life: like Swinburne he believes in artifice, but like Symons and Davidson he reacts against refinement, celebrating for instance the erotic and unrefined pleasures of the music-hall. And Caprices has its own place in the homosexual literature of the period: Wratislaw was obliged to omit from the edition two poems considered at the time to be scandalous (though five copies are known to survive, and our reprint is taken from one of these). Both volumes give an unmistakable flavour of the decade. £28.50 $48 Odour of women faintly wrought |
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