Download or read book Decadent Poetry written by Lisa Rodensky and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2006 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems collected in this volume are expressions of a spirit of self-indulgence, eroticism and moral rebelliousness that emerged in the late Victorian age. They deal with eternal themes of transition, artifice and the ravages of time. It presents the works of writers as Oscar Wilde, Arthur Symons, Rosamund Marriott Watson, and W B Yeats.