The Decadents

The fin-de-siècle aesthetes — Swinburne, Wilde, Dowson — who pursued beauty and sensation to the edge of scandal.

Art for art’s sake

In this collection

• The Ballad of the White Horse
• A Word for It
• An April Gust
• Old Chums
• The Treasure
• Charles H. Dean
• At Verona
• The King's Ballad
• THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK -- Extracts
• In Summer
• The Sea-Nation
• Caribbean Sunset
• The Raven and the King's Daughter
• In Time of Wars and Tumults
• The Song of the Allies
• To Hope
• Age covers us like drizzle
• The Katydids

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