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Baroque

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The Laboratory of Poetry by Michel Chaouli

The Policeman's Beard is Half-Constructed by Racter

Secrets of Doctor John Dee by Gordon James

The Angelical Language, Volume II by Aaron Leitch

•Bedappled In Adam's Apples

110 books — 5 voters

17th Century Romance (1601 - 1700)

221 books — 72 voters

The Romantic Generation by Charles Rosen

What to Listen for in Music by Aaron Copland

Classical Music: Nonfiction

312 books — 83 voters

Julie, Chevalier de Maupin by Anne-France Dautheville

His Dark Enchantress by Victoria Chatham

Mademoiselle de Maupin by Théophile Gautier

Novels about Julie d'Aubigny

8 books — 5 voters

Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance Filippo Negroli and H... by Stuart W. Pyhrr

Virtuoso Goldsmiths and the Triumph of Mannerism 1540-1620 by J.F. Hayward

Guido Mocafico & Victoire de Castellane by Eric Troncy

•One-Eyed Willie's Marble Sack

102 books — 2 voters

Short History of the Saxophone by Tom Weatherly

Tom Campion List

2 books — 3 voters

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Quotes Tagged “Baroque”

“ I'm a Baroque person. More than Baroque, I'm a Rococo person. I don't draw straight lines. ...more ”
― Nuno Roque

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“ The conventional use of words and of narrative structure is deliberately subverted in decadent fiction; language deviates from the established norms in an attempt to reproduce pathology on a textual level. With its emphasis on aberration and artifice, the decadents' approach to the language of fiction frequently leans towards the baroque and the obscure. ...more ”
― Asti Hustvedt, The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France

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