Excerpt from The Religious Poems of Lionel Johnson: Being a Selection From His Collected Works N o, became apparent. Speaking of a group of such men, some of them Lionel Johnson's friends, a discerning writer says: What English artist for a fifty years has made a Madonna and Child? Aubrey Beardsley made one. What poet had sung of the Last Sacraments? Ernest Dowson's most beautiful verses are on Extreme Unction. Lionel Johnson has not been a rebel. Nevertheless, his name con nects one form of failure with the literary life ...
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Excerpt from The Religious Poems of Lionel Johnson: Being a Selection From His Collected Works N o, became apparent. Speaking of a group of such men, some of them Lionel Johnson's friends, a discerning writer says: What English artist for a fifty years has made a Madonna and Child? Aubrey Beardsley made one. What poet had sung of the Last Sacraments? Ernest Dowson's most beautiful verses are on Extreme Unction. Lionel Johnson has not been a rebel. Nevertheless, his name con nects one form of failure with the literary life of his day, and with an ardent adherence to Religion. Far from Oxford the same re-discovery was being made, that only by grace Divine, Not otherwise, 0 Nature, are we thine! The author of The Hound of Heaven was Lionel Johnson's contem porary, and it may be of interest to put on record that they met. To Francis Thompson, Johnson addressed his Sursum Corda lines. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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