Testaments of John Davidson

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

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Authors: John Davidson In Year : 1901

Book Language: English

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The Testament of a Vivisector
The Testament of an Empire-Builder
The Testament of a Prime Minister
Excerpt from The Theatrocrat
The Testament of John Davidson (Part 1)
The Testament of John Davidson (Part 2)
The Testament of John Davidson (Part 3)
The Testament of John Davidson (Part 4)
St. Valentine's Eve (Fleet Street Ecologues)

The oft-maligned Testaments of John Davidson work as a sublime, psychopathic post-Nietzchean (Zarathustra was merely Davidson's springboard into a deeper transcendence) prologue to his impending suicide in 1909. After a warmly receptive life of ballad making and the like (benevolent pedagogy and inclusion in the chintzy Rhymer's Club), a by then poverty-stricken, neglected Davidson could sharpen his mind toward the completion of a more pristine art. Subsequently, we are given the meanest gap between symbolism and modernism (an expressionistic, Schopenhauerian materialist monism in monologic profile a la Browning, a demented Kipling) on record, a Marlowe-level blank verse masterwork of the now, warping into a demented, ironically (intended or not, certainly unfunded and ignored by anyone in charge) nationalist individualism, a system of self-deification, the final scream of a decaying genius. (Summary by kilpatrick83)