Melpomene - Paperback
Melpomene - Paperback
Description
by Gwendolyn Taunton (Editor)
Melpomene is a collection of poetry, prose and short fiction named after the Greek Muse of Tragedy. The central theme of the anthology is the beauty found in sorrow and the darker sides of human nature, drawing on literary traditions such as the 'Damned Poets', the Decadent Movement, Symbolism/Surrealism and the Fin de siècle.
Melpomene is broken into four sections: Liber Veneficium (Book of Magic), Liber Maeroris (Book of Sorrow), Liber Fatum (Book of Fate), and Liber Mortuorum (Book of Death). Each section contains both new and classic literature dealing with these themes.
Containing works both old and new, Melpomene offers a prime selection of works on the melancholic side of existence, the transformational beauty of the esoteric, occult secrets hidden in verse, sorrow, doom and the inevitable grasp of death. Melpomene will haunt the reader with a dark and unearthly beauty that is both forbidden and forlorn...
Authors include:
- Charles Baudelaire
- Paul Verlaine
- William Blake
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Emily Dickinson
- Gwendolyn Taunton
- Azsacra Zarathustra
- Math Jones
- Bernardo Sena
- J. Karl Bogartte
- C. B. Liddell
- James WF Roberts
- Christopher Pankhurst
- H. A. Cledones
- Tamas Nagyatadi Horvath
- L. Alexander Carle
- Bill Noble
- Marg Howlet
- Ivor Steven
- Gene Banyard
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