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Decadents, Symbolists, Anti-Decadents: chosen and introduced by R.K.R.Thornton
Aubrey Beardsley: |
The fin-de-siècle was a fertile era, with no one poet dominating taste.There was an emerging major poet, Yeats, and numerous minor ones, many of them inheritors of Pater and followers of Wilde, some happy to be thought of as Decadents, some maintaining a staunch anti-Decadent stance. Popular writers promoted by mass-consumerist culture jostled with authors of limited editions addressing a minority audience. Out of the period grew Symbolism, with all its implications for twentieth-century Modernism; and in it succeeding poets - Eliot, Pound - were to look for the ground of their own work. Each volume contains a short introduction of a biographical and bibliographical nature. |
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