The Crisis of French Symbolism
| By: | Laurence Porter |
| Publisher: | Cornell University Press |
| Print ISBN: | 9780801424182 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781501746178 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 1990 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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Challenging traditional histories of the nineteenth-century French lyric, Laurence 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 Mallarmé.