Lionel Johnson

Lionel Johnson (born March 15, 1867, Broadstairs, Kent, Eng.—died Oct. 4, 1902, London) was an English poet and critic who was notable for his fastidious and wistful lyrical poems but is mainly remembered as a typical representative of the “tragic generation” of the 1890s, which suffered from fin-de-siècle decadence and melancholy. Johnson studied at Winchester College and at New College, Oxford, and then went to London to pursue a literary career and to work as...