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Incurable
Writings that shed new light on one of the most gifted, if reclusive, poets of the fin-de-siècle. A lost poet of the decadent era, Lionel Johnson is the shadow man of the 1890s, an enigma “pale as wasted golden hair.” History has all but forgotten Johnson, except as a footnote to the lives of more celebrated characters like W. B. Yeats and Oscar Wilde. Johnson should have been one of the great poets of the age but was already drinking eau-de-cologne for kicks while a teenager at Winchester College. His attraction to absinthe damaged his fragile health and cast him forever into a waking dream of haunted rooms and spectral poetry. A habitual insomniac, he haunted medieval burial grounds a...
Lionel Johnson
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Selections from the Poems of Lionel Johnson
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross Sombre and rich, the skies;, . Great glooms, and starry plains. Gently the night wind sighs; Else a vast silence reigns. The splendid silence clings Around me: and around The saddest of all kings Crowned, and again discrowned. Comely and calm, he rides Hard by his own Whitehall: Only the night wind glides: No crowds, nor rebels, brawl. Gone, too, his Court: and yet.; The stars his courtiers are: Stars in their stations set; And every wandering star. BY THE STATUE OF...
Selections From the Poems of Lionel Johnson. Including Some Now Collected for the First Time. With a Prefatory Memoir
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Poetical Works of Lionel Johnson
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