Silhouettes
Arthur Symons
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Description
Arthur Symons's Silhouettes, second edition revised and enlarged, printed in London in 1896 by Leonard Smithers, gathers short poems and prose sketches of Paris, Dieppe, and London. Its preface speaks a word on behalf of patchouli. Its contents move from after sunset and rain on the downs to masks and faces, pastel, her eyes, and an angel of Perugino. Nocturnes, fetes galantes, and city nights stand beside them.
Symons writes in the Decadent mode: brief, scented, and keen on mood, color, and the fleeting hour. Each piece is a small impression, caught before it fades. Readers of fin-de-siecle verse will find a classic of the 1890s, polished, sensuous, and deliberately slight, in the best sense of that word.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Arthur Symons |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 65 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |