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Edgar Evertson Saltus (October 8, 1855 – July 31, 1921) was an American writer known for his highly refined prose style. His works paralleled those by European decadent authors such as Joris-Karl Huysmans, Gabriele D'Annunzio and Oscar Wilde. [citation needed]
May 31, 2020 · Author of cantankerous novels, historian of Roman and Russian terror and debauchery and a populizer of “scientific” pessimism, Saltus was the embodiment of American decadence during the fin de siècle.
Edgar Evertson Saltus was an American writer known for his highly refined prose style. Saltus received a law degree from Columbia University in 1880. Saltus wrote two books of philosophy, The Philosophy of Disenchantment and The Anatomy of Negation.
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Edgar Evertson Saltus (born Oct. 8, 1855, New York City—died July 31, 1921, New York City) was one of the few U.S. novelists who adopted the sophisticated cynicism, art-for-art’s-sake credo, and other mannerisms of the European school of Decadents.
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Edgar Saltus. (1855—1921) Quick Reference. (1855–1921), born in New York City, after studying at Yale and abroad and receiving an LL.B. from Columbia began his literary career with a biography of Balzac (1884); volumes of ... From: Saltus, Edgar [Evertson] in The Oxford Companion to American Literature » Subjects: Literature. Reference entries.
Edgar Evertson Saltus was an American writer known for his highly refined prose style. Saltus received a law degree from Columbia University in 1880. Saltus wrote two books of philosophy, The Philosophy of Disenchantment and The Anatomy of Negation.
