Snowdrops From A Curate's Garden View By Aleister Crowley
| Title | : | Snowdrops From A Curate's Garden |
| Author | : | Aleister Crowley |
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| ISBN | : | 0933429010 |
First published c 1904 in France, Snowdrops from a Curate s Garden is a hilarious and remarkably inventive collection of erotic prose and verse written by the influential libertine mystic and magician Aleister Crowley Sections of prose and verse are unified through a biographical frame narrative attributing them to a single author poet perpetrator The first section, The First published c 1904 in France, Snowdrops from a Curate s Garden is a hilarious and remarkably inventive collection of erotic prose and verse written by the influential libertine mystic and magician Aleister Crowley Sections of prose and verse are unified through a biographical frame narrative attributing them to a single author poet perpetrator The first section, The Nameless Novel, was written primarily to amuse Crowley s convalescing wife, Rose Kelly A scatological parody of erotic literature, it takes aim at the usual targets of libertine fiction and modern erotica but, at the same time, lampoons their libertine fiction and erotica s limitations and conventions through absurdity and hyperbole The verse sections, which include black parodies of notable Victorian poets such as Robert Browning and Algernon Charles Swinburne, were added to extend the literary forms in Crowley s earlier erotic work, White Stains 1898 , which is also available from Birchgrove Press
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Aleister Crowley, born Edward Alexander Crowley, was a British occultist, writer, mountaineer, philosopher, poet, and mystic He was an influential member in several occult organizations, including the Golden Dawn, the AA, and Ordo Templi Orientis O.T.O , and is best known today for his occult writings, especially The Book of the Law , the central sacred text of Thelema He gained much notoriet Aleister Crowley, born Edward Alexander Crowley, was a British occultist, writer, mountaineer, philosopher, poet, and mystic He was an influential member in several occult organizations, including the Golden Dawn, the A A , and Ordo Templi Orientis O.T.O , and is best known today for his occult writings, especially The Book of the Law , the central sacred text of Thelema He gained much notoriety during his lifetime, and was infamously dubbed The Wickedest Man in the World Crowley was a chess player, mountain climber, poet, painter, astrologer, hedonist, bisexual, drug experimenter, and social critic Crowley had claimed to be a Freemason, but the regularity of his initiations with the United Grand Lodge of England has been disputed 
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First published c 1904 in France, Snowdrops from a Curate s Garden is a hilarious and remarkably inventive collection of erotic prose and verse writte
Aleister Crowley
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