Victorian Poetry 24: The Rhymers’ Club: Fin de siècle poetry, towards Wilde and Yeats
Update: 2023-04-28
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Another Kipling poem -- "Danny Deaver" and the horror of hanging (in partial anticipation of Wilde's "Ballad of Reading Gaol"), and some discussion of Arnold, Pater, and Wilde as context for Lionel Johnson's "Dark Angel." Then two versions of Yeats's "Cradle Song."
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