Of Kings and Things by Eric Stanislaus Stenbock

An introduction to the Decadent writer Stanislaus Eric Stenbock for the general reader, offering morbid stories, suicidal poems, and an autobiographical essay.

An introduction to the Decadent writer Stanislaus Eric Stenbock for the general reader, offering morbid stories, suicidal poems, and an autobiographical essay. Described by W. B. Yeats as a scholar, connoisseur, drunkard, poet, pervert, most charming of men, Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock (1860 1895) is surely the greatest exemplar of the Decadent movement of the late nineteenth century.