Strange Tales and Decadent Poems by Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock
✍ Scribed by Eric Stanislaus Stenbock; David Tibet
- Book ID
- 100297558
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 5 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781913689070
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Described by W. B. Yeats as a "scholar, connoisseur, drunkard, poet, pervert, most charming of men," Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock (1860–1895) is surely the greatest exemplar of the Decadent movement of the late nineteenth century.
A friend of Aubrey Beardsley, patron of the extraordinary pre-Raphaelite artist Simeon Solomon, and contemporary of Oscar Wilde, Stenbock died at the age of thirty-six as a result of his addiction to opium and his alcoholism, having published just three slim volumes of suicidal poetry and one collection of morbid short stories.
Stenbock was a homosexual convert to Roman Catholicism and owner of a serpent, a toad, and a dachshund called Trixie. It was said that toward the end of his life he was accompanied everywhere by a life-size wooden doll that he believed to be his...