La Fin de Siecle (4 Book Box Set)

The four French poets translated here, in comprehensive and extensive selections, were the most important representatives of the Symbolist movement initiated by Charles Baudelaire. Though the term Symbolist was only applied to the movement after 1885, its origins are in Baudelaire's reaction to the preceding Parnassian and Naturalist schools of French verse. His work signified a re-direction of French poetry towards subjectivity, individualism, personal freedom, and exoticism, involving the...