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<description><![CDATA[<a class="highslide" href="https://picture.graycity.net/img/eric-stanislaus-stenbock/of_kings_and_things.jpg"><img src="https://picture.graycity.net/img/eric-stanislaus-stenbock/of_kings_and_things_preview.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dib" title ="Of Kings and Things" alt ="Of Kings and Things"/></a><br//><b>An introduction to the Decadent writer Stanislaus Eric Stenbock for the general reader, offering morbid stories, suicidal poems, and an autobiographical essay.<br></b><br>Described by W. B. Yeats as a "scholar, connoisseur, drunkard, poet, pervert, most charming of men," Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock (1860&#8211;1895) is surely the greatest exemplar of the Decadent movement of the late nineteenth century.<br>A friend of Aubrey Beardsley, patron of the extraordinary pre-Raphaelite artist Simeon Solomon, and contemporary of Oscar Wilde, Stenbock died at the age of thirty-six as a result of his addiction to opium and his alcoholism, having published just three slim volumes of suicidal poetry and one collection of morbid short stories.<br>Stenbock was a homosexual convert to Roman Catholicism and owner of a serpent, a toad, and a dachshund called Trixie. It was said that toward the end of his life he was accompanied everywhere by a life-size wooden doll that he believed to be his...]]></description>
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