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The Pierrot of the Minute

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WILLIAM THEODORE PETERS
As Ernest Dowson’s ‘The Pierrot of the Minute’

William Theodore Peters—remember him?

He is the American poet and actor with recent claims on this blog to be the ultimate decadent of the 1890s.

Peters’s decadent persona is supported by a photograph featured in that article which was thought to be the only one of him known to exist. However, I concluded by hinting at the existence of two other images of Peters that have recently come to my attention.

The first of these is the photograph below of Peters in Pierrot costume.

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The Gilded Gentleman

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—A Podcast Interview with John Cooper—

Whitman and Wilde Part 2:
Oscar Wilde in New York, 1882

The Gilded Gentleman is a history podcast hosted by Carl Raymond in New York City that launched in 2021–and already it has garnered a million downloads.

In a series of bi-weekly interviews with academics, authors, and experts in their relevant fields, The Gilded Gentleman tells the story of the society, culture, architecture, food, fashion, design, music, and literature of Paris’ Belle Époque and England’s Victorian and Edwardian eras.

I was asked to contribute to a two-part episode contrasting how—thirty years apart—Oscar Wilde’s and Walt Whitman’s arrivals in New York inspired them to move onto greater fame and celebrity.

Click on the link below to listen to the show on the Gilded Gentleman Episodes page of the web site, or it can be found wherever you download your podcasts:

© John Cooper, 2023.