Description Writings that shed new light on one of the most gifted, if reclusive, poets of the fin-de-si cle.
Johnson should have been one of the great poets of the age but was already drinking eau-de.
Yeats and Oscar Wilde.
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A lost poet of the Decadent era, Lionel Johnson is the shadow man of the 1890s, an enigma "pale as wasted golden hair." History has all but forgotten Johnson, except as a footnote to the lives of more celebrated characters like W.
Description Writings that shed new light on one of the most gifted, if reclusive, poets of the fin-de-si cle