The Crisis of French Symbolism

By Laurence M. Porter

Challenging traditional histories of the nineteenth-century French lyric, Laurence M. Porter maintains that from 1851 to 1875 Symbolism constituted neither a movement nor a system, but rather represented a crisis of confidence in the powers of poetry as a communicative act. The Crisis of French Symbolism offers a provocative reinterpretation of the four acknowledged masters of Symbolist poetry: Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, and Mallarm.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801424186
• ISBN13: 9780801424182
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"