White Stains

by Aleister Crowley

Overview

First published in 1898 under the pseudonym "George Archibald Bishop," White Stains is a collection of poetry by occultist Aleister Crowley, the man the British pressed dubbed 'The Wickedest Man in the World.' White Stains contains poems both in English and French and the unifying theme is a loose reworking of Richard von Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis in lyrical form.

CONTENTS

- Dédicace
- Prefatory: Sonnet to the Virgin Mary
- A Fragment
- The Rainbow
- With a Copy of 'Poems and Ballads'
- Ad Lydiam, Ut Secum a Marito Fugeret
- Contra Conjugium T. B. B.
- A Ballad of Choosing
- A Jealous Lover
- Ballade de la Jolie Marion
- At Stockholm
- Mathilde
- Yet Time to Turn
- All Night
- Ode to Venus Callipyge
- Volupté
- Rondels
- Ad Lucium
- A Paean in the Springtide
- To J. L. D.
- A Ballad of Passive Paederasty
- To A.D.
- At Kiel
- Suggested additional Stanzas for 'A Ballad of Burdens'
- 'Go into the Highways and Hedges, and complete them to come in'
- The Blood-Lotus
- To my First-born
- Cahnt au Saint-Esprit
- Victory
- Sleeping in Carthage
- With Dog and Dame
- ??µaf??d?t?? "??a?
- Erebus
- La Juive
- Necrophilia
- "?ß?sµ??

Includes image gallery.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940158453786
Publisher:	Enhanced E-Books
Publication date:	06/14/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	80
File size:	2 MB