Category Archives: Pages
Pages: The Play of Hadrian VII
Frederick Rolfe and his pontifical delusions
Pages: Sheila
“The Australian ingenue who bewitched British society”
Pages: Passionate Attitudes
“Beardsley, like ‘decadence’, was new, diseased and curious in form – and, like the century, he was hastening towards his end.”
Pages: Passionate Attitudes
“Beardsley, like ‘decadence’, was new, diseased and curious in form – and, like the century, he was hastening towards his end.”
Pages: Décadence Mandchoue
“He, if such there be, who peruses the following pages may deem that they are from the pen of a depraved, peradventure even if a talented, man…”
Pages: Décadence Mandchoue
“He, if such there be, who peruses the following pages may deem that they are from the pen of a depraved, peradventure even if a talented, man…”
Pages: The Books of the Beast
This is a 1987 miscellany of pieces stretching back as much as twenty years prior. The title piece concerns the published works of Aleister Crowley, a figure of fascination for the author ever since he was disciplined at school for ordering The Great Beast.
Pages: The Books of the Beast
This is a 1987 miscellany of pieces stretching back as much as twenty years prior. The title piece concerns the published works of Aleister Crowley, a figure of fascination for the author ever since he was disciplined at school for ordering The Great Beast.
Pages: Frederick Rolfe’s Reviews of Unwritten Books
These articles, written around the same time as Hadrian the Seventh (1903/04) come as a complete revelation. Where Hadrian was weighed down by Rolfe’s sense of aggrieved entitlement, these Reviews are light in the best possible sense, borne aloft on wit and invention.
Pages: Frederick Rolfe’s Reviews of Unwritten Books
These articles, written around the same time as Hadrian the Seventh (1903/04) come as a complete revelation. Where Hadrian was weighed down by Rolfe’s sense of aggrieved entitlement, these Reviews are light in the best possible sense, borne aloft on wit and invention.
Pages: Bohemian Paris
Bohemian Paris is one of those books so stuffed with ideas and names and references and cross-references and things you’re just dying to look up that it almost induces a state of neurasthenic overload in the reader (well, it did in this reader).
Pages: Bohemian Paris
Bohemian Paris is one of those books so stuffed with ideas and names and references and cross-references and things you’re just dying to look up that it almost induces a state of neurasthenic overload in the reader (well, it did in this reader).
Strange Flowers 