Word: corvo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...QUEST FOR CORVO ? A. J. A. Symons?Macmillan...
Frederick William Rolfe ("Baron Corvo") belongs with those eccentrics of literature whose books are caviar to the general. He experimented with words of his own concoction long before Joyce. His tales bear the stamp of strange originality. His life was that of a would-be priest, painter, novelist, historian, outcast, ascetic, sensualist, madman...