Lionel Johnson - Wikipedia Lionel Johnson From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search This article is about the English poet. For the character in Cat's Cradle, see Bokononism. "L. Johnson" redirects here. For others with the name, see List of people with surname Johnson. Lionel Johnson Born (1867-03-15)15 March 1867 Died 4 October 1902(1902-10-04) (aged 35) Nationality English Occupation Poet, essayist, and critic Lionel Pigot Johnson (15 March 1867 – 4 October 1902) was an English poet, essayist, and critic. Contents 1 Life 2 References 3 Bibliography 4 External links Life[edit] 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.[1] Also in June 1891 Johnson introduced his cousin Lord Alfred 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.[2] 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). He was one of the Rhymers' Club, and cousin to Olivia Shakespear (who dedicated her novel The False Laurel to him). Johnson lived a solitary life in London, struggling with alcoholism and repressed homosexuality.[3][4] He died of a stroke in 1902, after either a fall in the street, or a fall from a barstool[3] in the Green Dragon on Fleet Street.[5] In October 2018, Strange Attractor Press published Incurable: The Haunted Writings of Lionel Johnson, the Decadent Era's Dark Angel, which is edited by Nina Antonia.[6] Duncan Fallowell included Incurable in his list of books for the books of the year section (2018) in The Spectator.[7] Michael Dirda in his 5 December 2018 book review for The Washington Post, entitled "The '90s are having a literary moment. That is, the 1890s... " recommended Incurable as a must read.[8] Eric Hoffman reviewed Incurable in the Fortean Times on 25 February 2019, saying "This handsome volume from the excellent Strange Attractor Press includes a lengthy, authoritative introduction by Antonia, which provides biographical and critical contexts...Incurable is an accessible introduction to the work of this minor, yet distinctive, poet." [9] On 1 May 2019 Alan Contreras reviewed Incurable in the Gay and Lesbian Review, saying his "writing conjured worlds of the imagination" and called Nina Antonia's illustrated biography "masterful, gorgeously written and packed with carefully researched gossip."[10] References[edit] ^ Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Lionel Pigot Johnson" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. ^ Fisher, Trevor (2002). Oscar and Bosie. Sutton Publishing. pp. 42–3. ISBN 0-7509-2459-4. ^ a b O'Gorman, Francis (2004). Victorian Poetry: An Annotated Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. pp. 672–677. ISBN 0-631-23435-7. ^ Arkins, Brian (1990). Builders of My Soul: Greek and Roman Themes in Yeats. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 8. ISBN 0-389-20913-9. ^ Sweet, Matthew (2001). Inventing the Victorians. London: Faber and Faber. p. 205. ISBN 978-0-571-20663-6. ^ [1] ^ [2] ^ [3] ^ Eric Hoffman for Fortean Times, February 25, 2019 ^ https://glreview.org/article/short-reviews-28/ Wikisource has original works written by or about: Lionel Pigot Johnson Wikiquote has quotations related to: Lionel Johnson Bibliography[edit] Twenty one poems written by Lionel Johnson, selected by William Butler Yeats (Dun Emer Press, 1904) online text Some Winchester Letters of Lionel Johnson, (George Allen & Unwin, London, 1919.) The collected poems of Lionel Johnson (1953) edited by Ian Fletcher, Unicorn Press, London (reprinted 1982). Post Liminium. Essays and Critical Papers (1911) edited by Thomas Whittemore, Elkin Mathews, London (reprinted 1968). Lionel Johnson Victorian Dark Angel by Richard Whittington-Egan, Cappella Archive (2012). At the Heart of the 1890s: Essays on Lionel Johnson Gary Paterson, AMS Press (2008) Incurable: The Haunted Writings of Lionel Johnson, the Decadent Era’s Dark Angel edited by Nina Antonia, Strange Attractor Press (2018) External links[edit] Works by or about Lionel Johnson at Internet Archive Works by Lionel Johnson at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks) Works by Lionel Johnson at Open Library Authority control BNF: cb12222501d (data) GND: 11905129X ISNI: 0000 0001 0959 8481 LCCN: n50038580 MBA: a5deb3cd-379f-412a-a22e-1581800751b2 NLA: 35249276 NLI: 000071875 NTA: 069480443 SNAC: w6155v03 SUDOC: 030902010 Trove: 881704 VcBA: 495/334759 VIAF: 22942767 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n50038580 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lionel_Johnson&oldid=1002686886" Categories: 1867 births 1902 deaths English Catholic poets English essayists English Roman Catholics People from Broadstairs Converts to Roman Catholicism Gay writers People educated at Winchester College Alumni of New College, Oxford British male essayists English male poets 19th-century English poets 19th-century English male writers 19th-century essayists English male non-fiction writers Hidden categories: Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference Use dmy dates from November 2019 Articles with hCards Articles with Internet Archive links Articles with LibriVox links Open Library ID different from Wikidata Articles with Open Library links Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLA identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLI identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with Trove identifiers Wikipedia articles with VcBA identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikiquote Wikisource Languages العربية Deutsch Italiano مصرى Svenska Edit links This page was last edited on 25 January 2021, at 16:53 (UTC). 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