Title: Axel's castle
First published: 1931
Description: Edmund Wilson's landmark work - the book that helped to establish his reputation as one of this century's foremost literary critics - traces the development of the French Symbolist movement and its influence on six modern writers: William Butler Yeats, Paul Valery, T.S. Eliot, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein.
Subjects: History and criticism, Literature, Literature, Modern, Modern Literature, Symbolism, Symbolism (Literary movement), Symbolism in literature, Literature, modern, history and criticism, 19th century, Literature, modern, history and criticism, 20th century, Criticism, Symbolisme (mouvement littéraire), Littérature, Critique textuelle, Histoire et critique, Literary movements
People: James Joyce (1882-1941), T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), W. B. Yeats (1865-1939)
Time periods: 19th century, 20th century