{"product_id":"9781781880999","title":"Selected Early Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eArthur Symons (1865-1945) was a central figure in the decadent phase of English poetry of the 1890s. His early verse, notably in the major collections \u003cem\u003eSilhouettes\u003c\/em\u003e (1892; revd 1896) and \u003cem\u003eLondon Nights \u003c\/em\u003e(1895; revd 1897), created a sophisticated new kind of urban poetry out of the gas-lit world of London theatre and night-life. Under the French influences of Baudelaire and Verlaine, Symons developed a wistful poetic eroticism new to English readers, leading the way to the modernism of T. S. Eliot and others in the next generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis selection from Symons’s most fertile period as a poet reproduces the fuller revised editions of \u003cem\u003eSilhouettes\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLondon Nights\u003c\/em\u003e in their entirety, together with related poems from his other early volumes, \u003cem\u003eDays and Nights\u003c\/em\u003e (1889), \u003cem\u003eAmoris Victima\u003c\/em\u003e (1897), \u003cem\u003eImages of Good and Evil\u003c\/em\u003e (1899), and with early poems collected in \u003cem\u003eKnave of Hearts\u003c\/em\u003e (1913).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFully annotated and supplemented by related critical writings by Symons, Walter Pater, and others, this text offers students of late-Victorian literature a rich resource for the understanding of decadence in the London literary scene of the 1890s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Modern Humanities Research","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47032388813040,"sku":"9781781880999","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781781880999_p0.jpg?v=1763717913","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781781880999","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}