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
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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
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