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Informationen zum Autor Kostas Boyiopoulos is a Teaching Associate at the Department of English Studies, Durham University. Klappentext ***AUTHOR APPROVED*** Kostas Boyiopoulos's study of three poets of the English Decadence offers a lively, illuminating exploration of the strangely textualised fetishisms at work in their verse. Valuably attentive to grammar and verse-form, this account of Wilde, Symons, and Dowson captures the defining irresolutions and paradoxes of Decadent poetry. Chris Baldick, Goldsmiths, University of London Explores culturally significant encounters between sensuality and artificiality in the poetry of Wilde, Symons, and Dowson This book enquires into the problem of venerating artificiality and the inaccessibility of beauty associated with it whilst engaging in the sensuous, immediate experience as advocated by Walter Pater. It examines for the first time together poems by three protagonists of the 1890s: Oscar Wilde, Arthur Symons and Ernest Dowson. It sees their poems as sites where the self sensually collides with or is immersed in their artifice. This is understood through the shift from Aestheticism to Decadence, which is marked by a greater emphasis on heterodox erotic experience. This study examines Wilde's early poetry and its role in triggering this shift. It shows how the idea of an erotic encounter with artifice reaches its apex in Symons, and how in Dowson it ripens into vexed non-encounters. Key Features - The first monograph study to focus exclusively on Decadent poetry - Gives original attention to Oscar Wilde's early poetry which has been relatively neglected - Makes a clear and explicit distinction between 'Aestheticism' and 'Decadence', defining the nuances of their relationship - Includes a Coda which considers how this Decadent poetics transmutes in Modernism Kostas Boyiopoulos is Teaching Associate at the Department of English Studies, Durham University. Zusammenfassung Examines the poems by three protagonists of the 1890s: Oscar Wilde! Arthur Symons! and Ernest Dowson. This book sees their poems as sites where the self sensually collides with or is immersed in their artifice. It shows how the idea of an erotic encounter with artifice reaches its apex in Symons! and how in Dowson it ripens into non encounters. ...
