decadent's

Updated: June 24, 2025

Hence there has been on their part an ardent pursuit of hitherto undreamed-of sins, whose aura of suggestiveness has not been rubbed off by previous artistic expression. The decadent's excuse for his vices is that his office is to reflect life, and that indulgence of the senses quickens his apprehension of it.

Elizabeth Atkins - The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years

He read his Swinburne again, and unearthed from the bottom of a trunk some books that dealt with the decadent's joys, poets of the Flesh, and prosers of the Devil, in his many weary forms. Dearman, until she, being a woman, therefore suspected something and became uneasy. One afternoon he failed to put in an appearance at tea-time, though expected. He wrote that he had had a headache.

Percival Christopher Wren - Driftwood Spars: The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who: Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life