The Crisis of French Symbolism

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The Crisis of French Symbolism is written by Laurence Porter and published by Cornell University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1501746170 (ISBN 10) and 9781501746178 (ISBN 13).

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.