This book centers on the revolutionary French symbolist movement of the last part of the 19th century, translated by Emmett Parker. Peyre gets to the heart of the subject, through provocative lines.
IntroductionThe Word and Its AntecedentsBaudelaireRimbaud, or the Symbolism of RevoltThe Tragic Impressionism of VerlaineMallarméThe SymbolistsIn Search of the Morbid and the Strange: The Decadents and LaforgueSymbolism, Painting, and MusicThe Heritage of Symbolism in France and Outside FranceAppendixNotesBibliographical SurveyIndex
Henri Peyre (1901-1988) was a prolific writer, a profound thinker, a dedicated teacher and an ambassador of good will between America and France. Author of more than thirty books, Peyre spent the heart of his career as Sterling Professor of French at Yale University.
Emmett Parker was a professor of French in the department of Romance Languages at the University of Alabama and the author of Albert Camus: The Artist in the Arena (University of Wisconsin Press).
