num_pages: 254
description: 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."
language: English
title: Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930
titlecomplete: Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 (FSG Classics)
genres: 20th Century, Literature, American, History, Classics, Criticism, Essays, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 434
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux