✍ Scribed by Symons, Arthur; Creasy, Matthew;
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First published in 1899, The Symbolist Movement in Literature was a highly influential work of criticism and introduced the French Symbolists to an Anglophone readership. Arthur Symons's interest in writers such as Verlaine and Mallarmé puts him at the heart of contemporary debates about Decadence and Symbolism in fin-de-siècle literature, but his work was also a formative influence on modernist writers such as James Joyce, George Eliot, Ezra Pound, and William Butler Yeats, helping to shape the role of the Image in modernist writing. This new cri.;Cover; About the Contributors; About FyfieldBooks; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; A Note on the Text and Annotations; The Life of Arthur Symons; The Symbolist Movement in Literature; Section I: Essays Included in the 1908 Edition; Introduction; Gérard de Nerval; Villiers de l'Isle-Adam; Arthur Rimbaud; Paul Verlaine; Jules Laforgue; Stéphane Mallarmé; The Later Huysmans; Maeterlinck as a Mystic; Conclusion; Section II: Essays Added to the 1919 Edition; Joris-Karl Huysmans; A Note on Zola's Method; Edmond and Jules de Goncourt; Balzac; Prosper Mérimée.
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