Poetry in the late nineteenth centuryearlier essay "Byron" that first appeared in Macmillan's Magazine 43
(1880-81), 367-77, reprinted in Arnold, English Literature and Irish Politics,
ed. R.H. Super, The Complete Prose Works of Matthew Arnold, XI, 237;
further page reference appears in parentheses.
34 British Poetry and Prose, 1870-1905, ed. Ian Fletcher (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1987), 486-87; further page references appear in parentheses.
35 W.B. Yeats, Autobiographies: Reveries over Childhood and Youth and The
Trembling of the Veil (London: Macmillan, 1926), 373; further page reference
appears in parentheses.
36 Max Nordau, Degeneration, trans, anonymous (Lincoln, NE: University of
Nebraska Press, 1968), 21; further page references appear in parentheses. This
edition reprints the English-language translation published by D. Appleton in
New York in 1895.
37 Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, ed. Donald L. Lawler, Norton
Critical Edition (New York: W.W. Norton, 1988), 3-4.
38 Chris Healy, To-Day, 8 October 1902, cited in Ellmann, Oscar Wilde, 550.
39 Mosse, "Introduction," in Nordau, Degeneration, xx; further page reference
appears in parentheses.
40 James Thomson, "The City of Dreadful Night," in Thomson, The City of
Dreadful Night and Other Poems (London: Reeves and Turner, 1880), 2.
Thomson's poem first appeared in the Republican National Reformer during
March-May 1874.
41 Bertram Dobell, The Laureate of Pessimism: A Sketch of the Life and Character
of James Thomson ("B.V.") (London: Bertram Dobell, 1910), 58. This passage
has some similarities with remarks that Dobell made in his lengthy memoir of
Thomson that prefaces The Poetical Works of James Thomson, ed. Dobell, 2
vols. (London: Reeves and Turner, 1895), I, ix-xcii.
42 John Stokes, In the Nineties (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989),
118; further page reference appears in parentheses.
43 Arthur Symons, "A Literary Censure: A Book of Verses," Savoy 4 (1896),
91-93.
44 Ella Hepworth Dixon, The Story of a Modern Woman, ed. Kate Flint (London:
Merlin Press, 1990), 271.
45 Linda Dowling, Language and Decadence in the Victorian Fin de Siecle
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986), 219.
46 Symons, "Mr Henley's Poetry," Fortnightly Review 52 (1892), 188.
47 Herbert Home, "Paradise Walk," in Home, Diversi Colores (London: Privately
Printed, 1891), 23, cited in Dowling, Language and Decadence in the Victorian
Fin de Siecle, 222.
48 Dowling, Language and Decadence in the Victorian Fin de Siecle, 222.
49 Eliot cites these lines in "Swinburne as Poet," in Eliot, The Sacred Wood: Essays
in Poetry and Criticism (London: Methuen, 1928), 148; further page references
appear in parentheses. Eliot's essay was first published in Athenaeum, 16
January 1920, 72-73 and revised for the first edition of The Sacred Wood
(London: Methuen, 1920).
50 Austin, England's Darling (London: Macmillan, 1896), 94.
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