Decadence and Symbolism: A Showcase Anthology Stableford BrianPaperback

Collecting together eighty-six different pieces of prose from sixty-one authors, Decadence and Sybmolism: A Showcase Anthology, is the most broad-ranging anthology of its kind. Surveying the movements from their beginnings onward, the volume brings together texts from well-known exponents such as Rimbaud and Baudelaire, as well as numerous lesser-known authors, many of whose work is being made available in English for the first time.

Editor and translator Brian Stableford provides an in-depth introductory essay, as well as brief biographies of the various personalities presented.

Complete list of authors included:

Charles Baudelaire

Arthur Rimbaud

Th ophile Gautier

Xavier Forneret

Th odore de Banville

Paul Verlaine

X. B. Saintine

Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle Adam

Ernest Hello

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