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The Book of Jade

by David Park Barnitz

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1901
Pages
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  1. Prelude

    7:25

  2. Ashtoreth

    1:32

  3. Parfait Amour

    1:44

  4. Opium

    1:30

  5. Sombre Sonnet

    1:09

  6. Languor

    1:09

  7. Ennui

    1:14

  8. Litany

    2:31

  9. Harvard

    1:14

  10. Pride

    1:12

  11. Song of Golden Youth

    2:33

  12. Mais Moi Je Vis La Vie En Rouge

    1:46

  13. Louanges D'Elle

    1:43

  14. Hélas

    1:22

  15. Sonnet

    2:02

  16. Sonnet

    1:29

  17. Rondeau

    0:57

  18. Autumn Song

    0:43

  19. Ballad

    2:29

  20. Changelessness

    1:07

  21. Madonna

    1:11

  22. Poppy Song

    3:55

  23. Consolation

    1:09

  24. Liebes-Tod

    1:56

  25. Evening Song

    2:02

  26. Song of the Stars in Praise of Her

    2:29

  27. Aubade

    1:55

  28. Remember

    1:14

  29. Song

    0:51

  30. Song

    1:40

  31. Constancy

    1:40

  32. Requiem

    2:11

  33. Autumn Burial

    2:29

  34. Sonnet of Burial

    1:36

  35. Nocturne

    5:19

  36. Mad Sonnet

    1:12

  37. The House of Youth

    3:12

  38. De Profundis

    2:26

  39. Prayer

    2:17

  40. Sestettes

    4:27

  41. Sonnet of the Instruments of Death

    1:21

  42. Truth

    1:22

  43. Hegel

    0:42

  44. Monotony

    1:13

  45. Sepulture

    1:10

  46. Miserrimus

    1:21

  47. Scorn

    1:07

  48. The Grave

    2:33

  49. Mummy

    1:19

  50. Sepulchral Life

    1:22

  51. Corpse

    1:20

  52. Mankind

    1:22

  53. The Defilers

    1:22

  54. The Grotesques

    4:33

  55. Dead Dialogue

    5:49

  56. Fragments

    11:02

  57. Envoi

    2:54

  58. Postlude

    7:53

  59. Dedication

    0:49

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About this book

A single slim volume of poems is all David Park Barnitz left behind, published in 1901, the year he died at twenty-three. Steeped in the Decadent mood of Baudelaire and the late nineteenth century, the poems dwell on death, boredom, decay, and a weary disgust with existence, shot through with imagery drawn from Buddhism, Egyptian gods, and the far East. The tone is deliberately morbid and grand, half sincere despair and half stylish pose. Long out of print and passed hand to hand by collectors of the strange, The Book of Jade has become a minor cult item among readers of Gothic and Decadent verse. Free to read here in PDF and EPUB.

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David Park Barnitz

David Park Barnitz (1878-1901) was an American poet and student of Asian languages who died at twenty-three. His sole book, The Book of Jade, is a Decadent collection shaped by Baudelaire and the pessimism of Schopenhauer, now prized as a curiosity of American fin-de-siecle writing.

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First published
1901
Reading time
About 55 minutes
Pages
109
Language
English
Formats
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