books.google.co.uk - Romantic writers had found in Christianity a poetic cult of the imagination, an assertion of the spiritual quality of beauty in an age of vulgar materialism. The decadents, a diverse movement of writers, were the climax and exhaustion of this romantic tradition. In their art, they enacted the romance...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Decadence_and_catholicism.html?id=8JF4SdqIRJsC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareDecadence and catholicism
