Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930

by Edmund Wilson, Mary Gordon (Introduction)

Overview

Published in 1931, Axel's Castle was Edmund Wilson's first book of literary criticism—a landmark book that explores the evolution of the French Symbolist movement and considers its influence on six major twentieth-century writers: William Butler Yeats, Paul Valéry, T. S. Eliot, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein.

As Alfred Kazin later wrote, "Wilson was an original, an extraordinary literary artist . . . He could turn any literary subject back into the personal drama it had been for the writer."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780374529277
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date:	09/15/2004
Series:	FSG Classics
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) was a novelist, memoirist, playwright, journalist, poet, and editor but it is as a literary critic that he is most highly regarded. His more than twenty books include Axel’s Castle, Patriotic Gore, To the Finland Station, and Memoirs of Hecate County.

Mary Gordon is the author of the novel Spending.