This is a thread for decadent literature...Charles BaudelairePaul VerlaineStéphane MallarméArthur RimbaudJoris-Karl HuysmansErnest DowsonLionel JohnsonAubrey BeardsleyOscar WildeJohn Gray
Ô Satan, prends pitié de ma longue misère!Gloire et louange à toi, Satan, dans les hauteursDu Ciel, où tu régnas, et dans les profondeursDe l'Enfer, où, vaincu, tu rêves en silence!Fais que mon âme un jour, sous l'Arbre de Science,Près de toi se repose, à l'heure où sur ton frontComme un Temple nouveau ses rameaux s'épandront!
>>24736970Amazing...
>>24736958For anyone wondering, OP's picture is Felicien Rops. Fucking A-class artist.
>>24736958>>24737236only a pervert from Belgium could come up with such things
>>24737236He's kino. Don't post that one.
>>24736958>decadent literatureSo 99.99% of new books for like the past 80 years.
>>24736970I expected satanists put more thought into their poetry but it's just:>le satan, god>I praise thee
>>24737470>In the 1860s Rops had developed an acquaintance with a Madame Duluc and her two young daughters, Aurélie and Léontine Duluc (age 14 and 17 respectively at that time). A few years later, not long before the estrangement from his wife, he began a ménage à trois with the sisters, apparently with their mother's endorsement. He had children with both, although one child died at an early age.Um, based?
>>24737590It's not a satanist's poem, it's Les Litanies de Satan by Baudelaire
>>24738014It literally says in the 2nd line:>Glory and praise to you, SatanIf that's not satanist I don't know what should be considered as such.Or maybe there exists such context that makes this verse non-satanist but das hard to believe. Can you provide me with that?
>>24736958why did america never produce any good decadent writers? this is despite having Poe who inspired the entire movement
