Poems By Lionel Johnson
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Published 1895. Poems by celebrated fin-de-siecle poet. Same year as first edition but not the limited edition printing. This book has been re-covered with Boots library boards and there are the remains of the library sticker on back endpaper (see image 2). English poet and critic who was notable for his fastidious and wistful lyrical poems but is mainly remembered as a typical representative of the "tragic generation" of the 1890s, which suffered from fin-de-siecle decadence and melancholy. Johnson studied at Winchester College and at New College, Oxford, and then went to London to pursue a literary career and to work as a writer and critic for a number of periodicals. He early became an alcoholic and a recluse and suffered from spiritual malaise. He converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism in 1891. Johnson wrote the first solid study of novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, and his Poetical Works were edited in 1915 by Ezra Pound. He died at age 35 after falling on a public street and fracturing his skull. His friend William Butler Yeats left a touching portrait of him in Autobiographies. Good condition for age. No highlighting or other notes. Marble effect endpapers are tanned. Top of spine scuffed with two tiny tears either side (see main image).
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