Incurable: The Haunted Writings of Lionel Johnson, the Decadent Era's Dark Angel

by Lionel Pigot Johnson

Book Overview

Writings that shed new light on one of the most gifted, if reclusive, poets of thefin-de-si cle.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1907222626
• ISBN13: 9781907222627
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.9" x 7.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher