The Book of Jade (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Fin-de-Siècle Decadent Verse of Beauty, Death, Gothic Reverie, and Philosophical DespairBy David Park Barnitz
Length1h 34m
About this audiobook
The Book of Jade is a remarkable fin-de-siècle collection of poems steeped in morbidity, aesthetic refinement, and philosophical despair. Its lyrics move through moonlit gardens, tombs, narcotic reveries, and imagined Eastern splendors, using polished, musical diction to transform weariness into art. In dialogue with French Decadence, Symbolism, Poe, and the darker strains of Romanticism, the volume stands apart in American poetry for its uncompromising cult of beauty, death, and disenchantment. David Park Barnitz, born in 1878 and dead by twenty-three, was a precocious American writer whose erudition and temperament made him unusually receptive to late nineteenth-century decadence. Educated in classical and Orientalist traditions, he appears to have fashioned the book as both a literary mask and a metaphysical testament: a young scholar-poet's confrontation with mortality, spiritual exhaustion, and the insufficiency of conventional consolation. This book is recommended to readers interested in rare, intense, and unsettling poetry that resists the optimistic currents of its age. Those drawn to Baudelaire, Swinburne, or the American Gothic will find in Barnitz a singular voice: ornate, learned, and hauntingly final.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.
Audiobook details
GenrePoetry
Length1 hr 34 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 1, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2By
3Memorable Quotes
Maybe You Never Cry AgainBernie Mac4h 25m$20 · $0.00
Inquire WithinIn-Q2h 18m$16 · $0.00
The Poetic EddaJackson Crawford6h 24m$17
Poems of ParentingLoryn Brantz42m4 (1)$9 · $0.00
Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson5h 23m$16
The Weary Blues (Annotated)Langston Hughes2h 13m$2 · $0.00
The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)Edgar Allan Poe18h 27m$2 · $0.00
Stranger MusicLeonard Cohen5h 45m$20
The Essential Rumi, New Expanded EditionJalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi9h 24m$20
The Complete Poetry (Annotated)Oscar Wilde6h 44m$2 · $0.00
The Complete Works (Annotated)Robert Burns38h 34m$2 · $0.00
Saundarya LahariUnknown Author3h 16m5 (1)$18 · $0.00
Songs of a SourdoughRobert W. Service2h 13m$1 · $0.00
Little Flower of Jesus (Annotated)Thérèse of Lisieux5h 4m$2 · $0.00
The Poems of LeopardiGiacomo Leopardi3h 9m$2 · $0.00
I Hope This Finds You WellKate Baer50m$6 · $0.00
Nikki Giovanni: Love Poems & A Good CryNikki Giovanni2h 44m$18 · $0.00
Vulnerable AFTarriona “Tank” Ball42m$4
The Complete Poetry of Walt Whitman (Annotated)Walt Whitman20h 1m$2 · $0.00
A Year with RumiColeman Barks5h 56m$24 · $0.00
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