The Decadents: Art for art’s sake

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

In this collection

• The Happy Little Cripple
• It was not Death, for I Stood Up
• Atarah
• Mind and Matter
• Turkish Hymn to Mahomet
• The Creed to Be
• The New Amadis
• The Dead Hand
• Preaching vs. Practice
• The re-Enactment
• It is not yours, o Mother
• He Fears his Good Fortune
• The Bridal Eve
• The Black Sheep
• Isaiah 60: 15-–-20
• What Chris'Mas Fetched the Wigginses
• Rachel
• Derne
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