The Symbolist Movement in LiteratureSymons, Arthur
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The Symbolist Movement in Literature
Symons, Arthur
French literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Symbolism (Literary movement) -- France
Among works announced, but never published, it may be interesting
to mention: _Seid, William de Strally, Faust, Poésies Nouvelles
(Intermèdes; Gog; Ave, Mater Victa; Poésies diverses), La Tentation
sur la Montagne, Le Vieux de la Montagne, L'Adoration des Mages,
Méditations Littéraires, Mélanges, Théâtre_ (2 vols.), _Documents sur
les Règnes de Charles VI. et de Charles VII., L'Illusionisme, De la
Connaissance de l'Utile, L'Exégèse Divine._
A sympathetic, but slightly vague, Life of Villiers was written
by his cousin, Vicomte Robert du Pontavice de Heussey: _Villiers
de l'Isle-Adam,_ 1893; it was translated into English by Lady
Mary Lloyd, 1894. See Verlaine's _Poètes Maudits,_ 1884, and his
biography of Villiers in _Les Hommes d'Aujourd'hui,_ the series of
penny biographies, with caricature portraits, published by Vanier;
also Mallarmé's _Villiers de l'Isle-Adam,_ the reprint of a lecture
given at Brussels a few months after Villiers, death. _La Révolte_
was translated by Mrs. Theresa Barclay in the _Fortnightly Review,_
December, 1897, and acted in London by the New Stage Club in 1906. I
have translated a little poem, _Aveu,_ from the interlude of verse in
the _Contes Cruels_ called _Chant d'Amour,_ in _Days and Nights,_ 1889.
An article of mine, the first, I believe, to be written on Villiers
in English, appeared in the _Woman's World_ in 1889; another in the
_Illustrated London News_ in 1891.
LÉON CLADEL
(1835-1892)
_Les Martyrs Ridicules. Preface par Charles Baudelaire,_ 1862; _Pierre
Patient,_ 1862; _L'Amour Romantique,_ 1882; _Le Deuxième Mystère de
l'Incarnation,_ 1883; _Le Bouscassié,_ 1889; _La Fête-Votive de Saint
Bartholomée Porte-Glaive,_ 1872; _Les Vas-nu-Pieds,_ 1874; _Celui de la
Croix-aux-Bœufs,_ 1878; _Bonshommes,_ 1879; _Ompdrailles Le Tombeau
des Lutteurs,_ 1879; _N'a q'un Œil,_ 1885; _Tity Foyssac IV,_ 1886;
_Petits Chiens de Léon Cladel,_ 1879; _Par Devant Notaire,_ 1880;
_Crête-Rouge,_ 1880; _Six Morceaux de la Littérature,_ 1880; _Kerkades
Garde-Barrière,_ 1884; _Urbains et Ruraux,_ 1884; _Léon Cladel et
ses Kyrielle des Chiens,_ 1885; _Héros et Pantins,_ 1885; _Quelques
Sires,_ 1885; _Mi-Diable,_ 1886; _Gueux de Marque,_ 1887; _Effigies
d'Inconnus,_ 1888; _Raca,_ 1888; _Seize Morceaux de Littérature,_ 1889;
_L'ancien,_ 1889; _Juive-Errante,_ 1897.
EMILE ZOLA
(1840-1902)
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