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Poppies and Mandragora is a novel written by Edgar Saltus. The book is set in the early 20th century and follows the story of a young woman named Margot who is caught between her love for two men, Robert and Arthur. Robert is a wealthy man who promises Margot a life of luxury and comfort, while Arthur is a struggling artist who captures Margot's heart with his passion and creativity.As Margot navigates her feelings for both men, she becomes increasingly drawn to the world of opium and other drugs. She finds solace in the use of these substances, but soon discovers that they come with their own set of dangers and consequences.The novel explores themes of love, addiction, and the pursuit of pleasure. It also delves into the societal expectations placed on women during this time period, and the limitations they faced in terms of personal and professional fulfillment.Saltus's writing is known for its lush and vivid descriptions, and Poppies and Mandragora is no exception. The book is a sensory feast, evoking the sights, sounds, and smells of the world Margot inhabits. It is a compelling and thought-provoking read that offers a glimpse into a bygone era and the complex emotions and desires that drove its inhabitants.1926. A collection of sonnets by Saltus, novelist, poet and essayist, compiled by his wife, whose own poetry is included in this volume. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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THE ideal is the essence of poetry. In the virginal innocence of the world, poetry was a term that meant discourse of the gods. A world grown grey has learned to regard the gods as diseases of language. Conceived, it may be, in fevers of fancy, perhaps, originally, they were but deified words. Yet, it is as children of beauty and of dream that they remain. "Mortal has made the immortal," the Rig-Veda explicitly declares. The making was surely slow. In tracing the genealogy of the divine, it has been found that its root was fear. The root, dispersed by light, ultimately dissolved. But, meanwhile, it founded religion, which, revealed in storm and panic, for prophets had ignorance and dread. The gods were not then. There were demons only, more exactly there were diabolized expressions invented to denominate natural phenomena and whatever else perturbed. It was in the evolution of the demoniac that the divine appeared. Through one of time's unmeasurable gaps there floated the idea that perhaps the phenomena that alarmed were but the unconscious agents of superior minds. At the suggestion, irresistibly a dramatization of nature began in which the gods were born, swarms of them, nebulous, wayward, uncertain, that, through further gaps, became concrete, became occasionally reducible to two great divinities, earth and sky, whose union was imagined-a hymen which the rain suggested-and from which broader conceptions proceeded and grander gods emerged.

EDGAR SALTUS is held by some to be our greatest American stylist. Others regard him as a mere dazzling juggler of words. But, strangely enough, he has remained, with twenty books to his credit, in what one critic terms "distinguished obscurity." His published "Historia Amoris" fills the hearts of the elect with strange exultation. "Saltus," says William Marion Reedy in the "St. Louis Mirror," "is simply fascinatingly diabolic in his wisdom and his wit and his word-wizardry. He catches flashes from many facets of the jewel, Love. Mostly he delights in the recondite colors of its spectrum analysis, its rays X or N, or what others may be." Bliss Carman, in the . Brooklyn Eagle, affirms a similar verdict. He attributes to Mr. Saltus a brilliant style, daring fancy, fearless epigram, polished wit, qualities of genius and marvelous talent. The "San Francisco Argonaut" asserts that his artistic stature is greater than sixty times six best-sellers. His prose, we are told, at its best, is comparable to Oscar Wilde's. "Like Wilde he writes for the few; he has something of the same surface scholarship mingled with estheticism; his writing is recherche; his discourses are filled with the information of culture." To-day Edgar Saltus has almost completed his fiftieth year. He has written philosophy and fiction, journalism and poetry. -"Current Literature," Volume 43

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