At the heart of the 1890s
Subtitle: essays on Lionel Johnson
By: by Gary H. Paterson.
Series: AMS studies in the nineteenth century -- no. 39
Publisher: AMS Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9780404644697
Subjects: Johnson, Lionel Pigot, -- 1867-1902 -- Criticism and interpretation; English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Other titles: At the heart of the eighteen nineties
Description: "Widely recognized in his own time as a poet of the highest order, Lionel Johnson has since been largely overshadowed by critical interest in some of the brighter luminaries of the fin de siecle literary moment, such as Wilde and Yeats. In At the Heart of the 1890s: Essays on Lionel Johnson, Gary H. Paterson compensates for some of that neglect, aiming to restore Johnson to his deserved position at the center of the 1890s literary world."

"The eleven essays comprising At the Heart of the 1890s engage Johnson's poetry in detail, offering a critical portrait of the writer and his times. While giving critical attention to the familiar topics of Johnson's religiosity and homosexuality in the context of late nineteenth-century literary decadence, Paterson also devotes much of his study to an exploration of less critically considered "aspects of character," including Johnson's sense of humor, his interest in music, and his fascination with Celtic history and culture."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-168) and index.
Table of contents: title: Lionel Johnson and the 1890s; title: Mystic more than cavalier: Lionel Johnson's Religious thought; title: "Church of a dream": the religious poetry of Lionel Johnson; title: Lionel Johnson and Arthur H. Clough: an ironic debt?; title: Light and darkness, sound and silence in Lionel Johnson's poetry; title: Lionel Johnson's Melancholy music; title: Lionel Johnson: humorist; title: Lionel Johnson and the Love that dare Not speak its name; title: Arnoldian ? paterian? the aesthetic of Lionel Johnson; title: Lionel Johnson's Celtic twilight.