The symbolist movement in literature / by Arthur Symons.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Symons, Arthur, 1865-1945.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature--19th century--History and criticism.

French literature.

Symbolism (Literary movement)--France.

Symbolism (Literary movement).

France.

Penn Provenance:

Craven, E. G. (donor) (RBC Stor 809.99 Sy65)

Physical Description:

vi, 197 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm

Manufacture:

London and Edinburgh : Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.

Place of Publication:

London : William Heinemann, 1899.

Contents:

Introduction.

Gérard de Nerval.

Villiers de l'Isle Adam.

Arthur Rimbaud.

Paul Verlaine.

Jules Laforgue.

Stéphane Mallarmé.

Huysmans as a symbolist.

Maeterlinck as a mystic.

Conclusion.

Notes:

With half-title.

Dedication to W. B. Yeats.

"Symbolism ... is all an attempt to spiritualise literature, to evade the old bondage of rhetoric, the old bondage of exteriority. Description is banished that beautiful things may be evoked, magically; the regular beat of verse is broken in order that words may fly, upon subtler wings."--Introduction.

"By the same writer": [1] p. at end.

Dark blue boards; gilt lettering on spine.

Bibliography ("of the works of each writer with whom I have dealt"): pages [177]-197.

OCLC:

480763