Yeats, ‘The Nineteenth Century and After’Ĭontents Preface Acknowledgements Decadent Art 1872–1900 Introduction (I) (II) (III) (IV) Though the great song return no more There’s keen delight in what we have: The rattle of pebbles on the shore Under the receding wave. They will either be made consciously or decay.
In the future, societies will not grow of themselves. Virtues which were once nursed unconsciously by the forces of nature must now be recovered and fostered by a deliberate effort of the will and the intelligence. They were too unjust, too squalid, and too custom-bound. The old pre-industrial community and culture are gone, and cannot be brought back. Tennyson at Aldworth, quoted by Sir James Knowles
And it is so always with me now it is the distance that charms me in the landscape, the picture and the past, and not the immediate today in which I move.
It is in a way like St Paul’s ‘groanings which cannot be uttered’ It is what I have always felt even from a boy, and what as a boy I called ‘the passion of the past’. Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction The feeling of strangeness that overcomes the actor before the camera is basically of the same kind of estrangement felt before one’s own image in the mirror. ISBN-10: 1 84331 302 2 (Hbk) ISBN-13: 978 1 84331 302 1 (Hbk) ISBN-10: 1 84331 317 0 (Ebk) ISBN-13: 978 1 84331 317 5 (Ebk) 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 The illustration on the cover is ‘The Mirror’ (1900), by Sir William Orpen, reproduced by permission of the Tate.The illustration on page 35 is ‘Queen Victoria’ (1899), by Benjamin Constant, reproduced by permission of The Royal Collection © 2008 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book has been requested. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Should there be any issues regarding this matter, please contact Anthem Press at the address above. The publishers have made every attempt to respect due copyrights for the work within this collection. All rights reserved.Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book. #116, New York, NY 10016, USA Introduction, editorial matter and selection © 2009 Caroline Blyth The moral right of the authors has been asserted. She was previously Fellow and Director of Studies at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge, and held a Newton Trust Fellowship and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Faculty of English.ĭecadent Verse An Anthology of Late Victorian Poetry, 1872–1900Įdited and with an Introduction by Caroline BlythĪnthem Press An imprint of Wimbledon Publishing Company This edition first published in UK and USA 2009 by ANTHEM PRESS 75–76 Blackfriars Road, London SE1 8HA, UK or PO Box 9779, London SW19 7ZG, UK and 244 Madison Ave. She edited Critical Quarterly:The Making of the Reader (Blackwells, 2003). Decadent Verse An Anthology of Late Victorian Poetry, 1872–1900 Caroline Blyth teaches English at Royal Holloway, University of London and is a Visiting Fellow of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge.
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