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Symbolism Further Reading

Carter, A. E., Paul Verlaine, Twayne, 1971.

Carter provides an authoritative biography of Paul
Verlaine, one of the founders of the French symbolist
movement in poetry.

Eisenman, Stephen, The Temptations of Saint Redon: Biography, Ideology, and Style in the Noirs of Odilon Redon, University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Eisenman provides discussion of thematic and stylistic
elements of the symbolist works of Odilon Redon,
a major French symbolist artist.

Fowlie, Wallace, Rimbaud and Jim Morrison: The Rebel as Poet, Duke University Press, 1993.

Fowlie offers a comparison of the nineteenth-century
French symbolist poet Rimbaud and the 1960s American
rock star Jim Morrison. Fowlie asserts that both
Rimbaud and Morrison expressed a similar sense of
rebellion in their art and that both figures stand as
modern antiheroes.

Kolakowski, Leszek, The Alienation of Reason: A History of Positivist Thought, Doubleday, 1968.

Kolakowski provides...
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