French Symbolist Poetry

French Symbolist Poetry Criticism

• Introduction
• Representative Works
• Criticism: Overviews
  • Symbolism
  • The Rhumb Line of Symbolism: French Poets from Sainte-Beuve to Valéry
  • Introduction to Four French Symbolist Poets: Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé
• Criticism: Symbolist Aesthetics
  • Symbol as Terminus: Some Notes on Symbolist Narrative
  • Mallarmé and the Elasticity of the Text
  • The Poetry of Consciousness
  • The Poetry of Symbolism and Decadence
  • The Linguistic Turning of the Symbol: Baudelaire and His French Symbolist Heirs
• Criticism: The Symbolist Lyric
  • The Prince and His Star
  • Verlaine: Symbolism and Popular Poetry
  • ‘To Plunge Into the Bottom of the Abyss’: Rimbaud's Search for the Unknown in The Drunken Boat and Memory
• Criticism: History And Influence
  • Triumph and Schism, 1891
  • The Term and Concept of Symbolism in Literary History
  • The Background of Symbolism: From Romanticism to Art for Art's Sake
  • The Crisis of French Symbolism
  • Anarchism at the Dawn of the Symbolist Movement
• Further Reading