Axel’s Castle: A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870–1930 (1931) by Edmund Wilson delivers a significant analysis of the symbolist movement and its impact on notable twentieth-century authors like William Butler Yeats, Paul Valéry, T. S. Eliot, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein.

Six French Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Lamartine, Hugo, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarmé (2000), edited by E. H. Blackmore and A. M. Blackmore, presents a bilingual collection of French symbolist poetry, featuring English translations on the opposite pages.

French Symbolist Poetry: An Anthology (1980), edited by John Porter Houston and Mona Tobin Houston, provides English translations of key works of French symbolist poetry.

The Crisis of French Symbolism (1990) by Laurence M. Porter offers critical analysis and interpretation of the works of major symbolist poets such as Mallarmé, Verlaine, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud.

Four French Symbolists: A Sourcebook on Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon, and Maurice Denis (1996) by Russell T. Clement serves as a useful guide to additional resources on leading French symbolist painters.

Symbolist Theater: The Formation of an Avant-Garde (1993) by Frantisek Deak explores the evolution of symbolist theatre in France.

Models of the Universe: An Anthology of the Prose Poem (1995), edited by Stuart Friebert and David Young, introduces readers to prose poetry from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, featuring a variety of authors.

Debussy in Performance (1999), edited by James R. Briscoe, includes essays about Debussy and Symbolism, as well as discussions on his musical adaptations of Mallarmé’s The Afternoon of a Faun and Maeterlinck’s Pelleas and Melisande.

Debussy and His World (2001), edited by Jane F. Fulcher, contains an essay on Debussy’s involvement in the Tuesday salons organized by Mallarmé.

Paris and the Nineteenth Century (1992) by Christopher Prendergast offers a historical examination of the cultural and political landscape of nineteenth-century Paris, France.

Realism, Naturalism, and Symbolism: Modes of Thought and Expression in Europe, 1848–1914 (1968), edited by Roland N. Stromberg, provides insight into major artistic and literary movements in Europe during the period when the symbolist movement emerged.