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Tables of Contents for Decadents, Symbolists, & Aesthetes in America
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Illustrations
ix
Introduction
2
14
Prose
from The Hasheesh Eater
16
4
Fitz Hugh Ludlow
Modern Melancholy
Francis Grierson
from Paul Verlaine
from Stephane Mallarme
20
5
from The Philosophy of Disenchantment
25
2
Edgar Saltus
from Modern Symbolism and Maurice Maeterlinck
27
3
Richard Hovey
Nosphilia: A Nordau Heroine
30
3
James Huneker
from Wilful Sadness in Literature
33
4
Louise Imogen Guiney
from Paul Verlaine
37
4
Stuart Merrill
Laird Hunt
M'Lle New York
Vance Thompson
from The Technique of the Symbolists
41
5
Poetry
The Passing Show
46
3
Ambrose Bierce
The Marshes of Glynn, from Sunrise
49
4
Sidney Lanier
Graves, Arrack, The Bayadere, Confession
53
3
Francis S. Saltus
``She lay in the Hall of the Mirrors...''
56
1
James Gibbons Huneker
The Stillness of the Frost Twilight on Sixth Avenue at Ninth Street
57
2
Charles G. D. Roberts
Witchery
59
1
Frank Dempster Sherman
Low Tide on Grand Pre
60
2
Bliss Carman
The City at the End of Things
62
3
Archibald Lampman
Night Hymns on Lake Nipigon
65
2
Duncan Campbell Scott
Nocturne
Stuart Merrill
Catherine Perry
Henry Weinfield
Peace
John Hay
Little Poems About Love
67
6
Andrew Mangravite
``I am the fool of Pampelune...'', Symbols
73
2
Vance Thompson
The Faun. A Fragment, A Stephane Mallarme, To Swinburne
75
5
Richard Hovey
La Chevauchee D'yeldis and Au Tombeau D'helene (summarized, with translated passages
80
4
Francis Viele-Griffin
Thomas B. Rudmose-Brown
Phantoms
Madison Cawein
The Rosicrucian
The Lust of the World
84
4
The Purple Cow
Gelett Burgess
The Bohemians of Boston
88
5
Norman Cradle-Song
Vincent O'Sullivan
At the Gate of the Year
93
3
Dawn-Flowers
96
2
Sadakichi Hartmann
Gloucester Moors
William Vaughn Moody
The Quarry
98
5
Another Dark Lady
Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Dark House
103
3
The Lords of Pain
106
1
George Sterling
from War is Kind
107
2
Stephen Crane
The Sonnets of Ishtar
109
2
George Cabot Lodge
Crepuscule Du Matin
Amy Lowell
The Blue Scarf
Aubade
from Spring Day
111
3
Mnemosyne
Trumbull Stickeny
The Melancholy Year is Dead With Rain
Be Still the Hanging Gardens were a Dream
With Long Black Wings an Angel Standing
114
3
Youth and Night
Wilbur Underwood
Midsummer Night
117
2
Voyage A L'infini
119
1
Walter Conrad Arensberg
The Lonely Death
Adelaide Crapsey
The Warning
120
1
As a Decadent Passes
Donald Evans
At the Wheel
Love in Patagonia
In the Gentlemanly Interest
121
3
Sappho
124
2
Sara Teasdale
Charles Baudelaire
George Sylvester Viereck
The Haunted House, Gersuind
Children of Lilith
126
6
from Irradiations
John Gould Fletcher
from Sand and Spray
132
4
from The House of Dust
136
2
Conrad Aiken
Serenade in Grey
138
1
Samuel Greenberg
The Eldrich Dark, White Death
139
3
Clark Ashton Smith
Translations
Anywhere out of the world
142
2
Stuart Merrill
Charles Baudelaire
Colloque Sentimental
144
1
Gertrude Hall
Paul Verlaine
Herodias (fragment)
145
3
Richard Hovey
Stephane Mallarme
The Afternoon of a Faun
148
4
Walter Conrad Arensberg
Stephane Mallarme
A Song Without Words
Ludwig Lewisohn
Paul Verlaine
The Sleeper of the Valley
152
2
Arthur Rimbaud
The Remorse of the Dead
James Huneker
Charles Baudelaire
Spleen
154
3
Charles Baudelaire
Biographical Notes
157