Lionel Pigot Johnson (15 March 1867 - 4 October 1902) was an English poet, essayist and critic. Events 44 BC - Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Year 1867 ( MDCCCLXVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Events 610 - Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, overthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas Year 1902 ( MCMII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting He was born at Broadstairs, and educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, graduating in 1890. Winchester College is a well-known boys' Independent school, and an example of an English Public school, in the city of Winchester in Hampshire New College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. He became a Catholic convert in 1891. [1] He lived a rather solitary life in London, struggling with alcoholism and his repressed homosexuality. Alcoholism is a term with multiple and sometimes conflicting definitions Homosexuality refers to sexual behavior with or attraction to people of the same sex or to a Homosexual orientation. [2][3] He died of a stroke after a fall in the street, though it was said to be a fall from a barstool. [2]
During his lifetime were published his The Art of Thomas Hardy (1894), Poems (1895), Ireland and Other Poems (1897). Thomas Hardy OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928 was an English novelist Short story writer and poet of the naturalist movement though he saw He was one of the Rhymer's Club. The Rhymers' Club was a group of London -based poets founded in 1890 by W
His poem, The Dark Angel served as one of the influences for the Dark Angels chapter of Space Marines in the Warhammer 40,000 fictional universe. In the fictional Warhammer 40000 setting of Games Workshop, the Space Marines are elite soldiers modified through gene therapy surgical modifications and Warhammer 40000 (informally known as Warhammer 40K or just 40K) is a tabletop miniature wargame in a Science Their Primarch, Lion El'Jonson, is also named after him.
Many of Johnson's poems are considered by scholars to reflect his homosexuality. In 1892, Johnson converted to Catholicism. He repudiated former friend Oscar Wilde and directed a sonnet at him called "The Destroyer of a Soul" (presumably the soul of his cousin Lord Alfred Douglas, whom he had introduced to Wilde the previous June). Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900 was an Irish Playwright, Novelist, poet and Author of In the following year, Johnson wrote what some consider his masterpiece, "The Dark Angel", rooted in anguish about his homosexuality. [2][4]
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"Lionel Pigot Johnson". Catholic Encyclopedia. The Catholic Encyclopedia, also referred to today as the Old Catholic Encyclopedia, is an English-language Encyclopedia published by The Encyclopedia (1913). New York: Robert Appleton Company. - ^ a b c O'Gorman, Francis (2004). Victorian Poetry: An Annotated Anthology. Blackwell Publishing, 672–677. Blackwell Publishing Ltd was a Learned society publishing company based in Oxford, England. ISBN 0631234357.
- ^ Arkins, Brian (1990). Builders of My Soul: Greek and Roman Themes in Yeats. Rowman & Littlefield, 8. ISBN 0389209139.
- ^ Hanson, Ellis (1997). Decadence and Catholicism. Harvard University Press, 88. Harvard University Press ( HUP) is a Publishing house, a division of Harvard University, that is highly respected in Academic publishing. ISBN 0674194446.
The collected poems of Lionel Johnson (1953) edited by Ian Fletcher, Unicorn Press, London (reprinted 1982).
Post Liminium. Essays and Critical Papers (1911) edited by Thomas Whittemore, Elkin Mathews, London (reprinted 1968). Lionel Pigot Johnson: a biography" Richard Whittington-Egan, Rivendale Press (to be announced)
| Persondata | |
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| NAME | Johnson, Lionel Pigot |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Johnson, Lionel |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15 March 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Broadstairs |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4 October 1902 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | |
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