- History and criticism, Literature, Literature, Modern, Modern Literature
Edmund Wilson's landmark work - the book that helped to establish his reputation as one of this century's foremost literary critics - traces the development of the French Symbolist movement and its influence on six modern writers: William Butler Yeats, Paul Valery, T.S. Eliot, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein.
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Cool, earnest, grave and prestige.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Edmund Wilson
- First published
- 1931
- Pages
- 319
- Publisher
- Maxwell Macmillan Canada, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, Charles Scribner's Son
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780140167252
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