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Lionel Pigot Johnson

Born

in Broadstairs, The United Kingdom

March 15, 1867

Died

October 04, 1902

Genre

Poetry

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Lionel Pigot Johnson (15 March 1867 – 4 October 1902) was an English poet, essayist and critic.

Johnson was born in Broadstairs, Kent, England in 1867 and educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, graduating in 1890. He became a Catholic convert in June 1891. Also in June 1891 Johnson introduced his cousin Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas to his friend Oscar Wilde. He later repudiated Wilde in "The Destroyer of a Soul" (1892), deeply regretting initiating what became the highly scandalous love affair between the two men.

In 1893 he published what some would consider his greatest work, "Dark Angel". During his lifetime were published: The Art of Thomas Hardy (1894), Poems (1895), and Ireland and Other Poems (1897).

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	Incurable: The Haunted Writings of Lionel Johnson, the Decadent Era Dark Angel by Lionel Pigot Johnson, Nina Antonia (Editor) 3.79 avg rating — 43 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poetical Works of Lionel Johnson 4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1915 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poems 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1895 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lionel Johnson: Poetry and Prose by Lionel Pigot Johnson, Robert Asch (Editor), Joseph Pearce it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poetry and Ireland: Essays by W B Yeats and Lionel Johnson really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Religious Poems of Lionel Johnson: Being a Selection From His Collected Works liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2014 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Art of Thomas Hardy really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1969 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Some Winchester Letters it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Post Liminium: Essays and Critical Papers by Lionel Pigot Johnson, Thomas Whittemore liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selections From the Poems of Lionel Johnson. Including Some now Collected for the First Time. With a Prefatory Memoir by Lionel Pigot Johnson, Clement King Shorter liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Mine is the sultry sunset when the skies
Tremble with strange, intolerable thunder:
And at the dead of an hushed night, these eyes
Draw down the soaring oracles winged with wonder”
― Lionel Johnson

tags: sunset

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“While death and darkness girdle me
I grope for immortality.”
― Lionel Johnson

tags: darkness, death, immortality

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“Come! our world is done:
For all the witchery of the world is fled,
And lost all wanton wisdom long since won.”
― Lionel Johnson

tags: fantastic, fantasy

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