The Castle of Axel (A Study of Imaginative Literature from 1870 to 1930)

Author: [US] Wilson
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Features: This book is a collection of essays by Wilson on modernist writers, which he published in the U.S. magazine The New Republic. It is his but influential literary criticism work. In this book, Wilson studies the development of the French Symbolist movement and analyzes its influence on six famous 20th-century writers—Yeats, Valéry, T.S. Eliot, Proust, Joyce, and Stein. This book is considered a landmark literary theory work on the study of the French Symbolist movement.