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
Le _Drageoir à épices,_ 1874; _Marthe: Histoire d'une Fille,_ 1876;
_Les Sœurs Vatard,_ 1879; _Croquis Parisiens,_ 1880; _En Ménage,_
1881; _A Vau-l'Eau,_ 1882; _L'Art Moderne,_ 1883; _A Rebours,_ 1884;
_Un Dilemme,_ 1887; _En Rade,_ 1887; _Certains,_1889; _La Bièvre,_1890;
_Là-Bas,_ 1891; _En Route,_ 1895; La _Cathédrale,_ 1898; _La Bièvre
Saint-Séverin,_ 1898; Pages _Catholiques,_ 1900; Sainte _Lydwine de
Schiedam,_ 1901; De Tout, 1902; L'Oblat, 1903; Trois _Primitifs,_
1905; Les Foules de _Lourdes,_ 1906; See also the short story, _Sac
au Dos,_ in the _Soirées de Médan,_ 1880, and the pantomime, _Pierrot
Sceptique,_ 1881, in collaboration with Léon Hennique. _En Route_ was
translated into English by Mr. Kegan Paul, in 1896; and _La Cathédrale_
by Miss Clara Bell, in 1898.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD
(1854-1891)
_Une Saison en Enfer,_ 1873; _Les Illuminations,_ 1886; _Reliquaire,_
1891 (containing several poems falsely attributed to Rimbaud); _Les
Illuminations: Une Saison en Enfer,_ 1892; _Poésies Complètes,_ 1895;
_Œuvres,_ 1898.
See also Paterne Berrichon, _La Vie de Jean-Arthur Rimbaud,_ 1898,
and _Lettres de Jean-Arthur Rimbaud,_ 1899; Paul Verlaine, _Les
Poètes Maudits,_1884, and the biography by Verlaine in _Les Hommes
d'Aujourd'hui._ Mr. George Moore was the first to write about
Rimbaud in England, in "Two Unknown Poets" (Rimbaud and Laforgue) in
_Impressions and Opinions,_ 1891. In Mr. John Gray's _Silverpoints,_
1893, there are translations of "Charleville" and "Sensation." The
latter, and "Les Chercheuses de Poux," are translated by Mr. T. Sturge
Moore in _The Vinedresser, and other Poems,_ 1899.
JULES LAFORGUE
(1860-1887)
_Les Complaintes,_ 1885; _L'Imitation de Notre-Dame la Lune,_ 1886;
_Le Concile Féerique,_ 1886; _Moralités Légendaires,_ 1887; _Derniers
Vers,_ 1890 (a privately printed volume, containing _Des Fleurs de
Bonne Volonté, Le Concile Féerique,_ and _Derniers Vers); Poésies
Complètes,_ 1894; _Œuvres Complètes, Poésies, Moralités Légendaires,
Mélanges Posthumes_ (3 vols.), 1902, 1903.
An edition of the _Moralités Légendaires_ was published in 1897, under
the care of M. Lucien Pissarro, at the Sign of the Dial; it is printed
in Mr. Ricketts' admirable type, and makes one of the most beautiful
volumes issued in French during this century. In 1896 M. Camille
Mauclair, with his supple instinct for contemporary values, wrote
a study, or rather an eulogy, of Laforgue, to which M. Maeterlinck
contributed a few searching and delicate words by way of preface.
MAURICE MAETERLINCK
(1862)
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