Late-Victorian Decadent Song Literature
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This article considers the Victorian and Edwardian vogue for setting late-Victorian decadent poetry to music. It examines particular appeal of Ernest Dowson's Arthur Symons's verse composers Cyril Scott Frederick Delius, whose Songs Sunset (1911) was regarded as “quintessential expression fin-de-siècle spirit,” discusses contribution women musicians—particularly that Irish composer translator Adela Maddison (1866–1929)—to cross-continental tradition song literature musical legacy decadence in period beyond.
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عنوان ژورنال: Victorian Literature and Culture
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1060-1503', '1470-1553']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s1060150320000224