Lionel Pigot Johnson

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Lionel Pigot Johnson


Born
in Broadstairs, The United Kingdom
March 15, 1867

Died
October 04, 1902

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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 Writ...

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Poetical Works of Lionel Jo...

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Poems

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Lionel Johnson: Poetry and ...

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Poetry and Ireland: Essays ...

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The Religious Poems of Lion...

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Art of Thomas Hardy

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Some Winchester Letters

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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

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

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

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