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Stray Leaves from Strange Literature, epitomizes and reillumines this first period of his literary workmanship. The material, the basis, is not his own; it is drawn from the fatal Orient, and tells of love, jealousy, hate, bitter and burning vengeance, and death, sudden and awful. Over it is the wondrous mystical glamour in which he, like his elder brother Coleridge, was so expert in sunsetting these dead days and deathless themes. His next book,
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Some Chinese Ghosts,
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Have you ever experienced the historic shudder? asked Flaubert.
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I seek to give your ghost a ghostly shudder,
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Art should be raised above personal affections and nervous susceptibilities. It is time to give it the perfection of the physical sciences by means of pitiless method.
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Avatar, and his most serious
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St. Anthony --works dealing with the mysteries and awesomeness of disembodied souls and ideals--