{"product_id":"the-symbolist-movement-in-literature-paperback-1","title":"The Symbolist Movement in Literature - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eArthur Symons\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMatthew Creasy\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1899\u003ci\u003e, The Symbolist Movement in Literature\u003c\/i\u003e 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 Mallarme puts him at the heart of contemporary debates about Decadence and Symbolism in \u003ci\u003efin-de-siecle\u003c\/i\u003e 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 critical edition makes available a key text that has been out of print for more than 50 years. It includes an introduction, chronology, and notes, together with appendices presenting the full text of Symons' essay \"The Decadent Movement in Literature\" and a selection of his translations of French poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMatthew Creasy \u003c\/b\u003eis a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow. He has published essays and articles on the work of William Empson, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf. \u003cb\u003eArthur Symons \u003c\/b\u003elived in London, where he frequented the Rhymers' Club, a group of writers who met at the Cheshire Cheese in Fleet Street between 1891 and 1894. A friend of Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, and Oscar Wilde, he was an important influence on William Butler Yeats. He contributed to \u003ci\u003eThe Yellow Book\u003c\/i\u003e and became editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Savoy\u003c\/i\u003e. He died in 1945.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.92 x 8.52 x 5.28 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 30, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42165668970631,"sku":"9781847771254","price":29.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/66f117ab2fa25f98b196f68fd2848543.webp?v=1733315246","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-symbolist-movement-in-literature-paperback-1","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}