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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
Criticism
Histoire et critique
Symbolism
Modern Literature
Littérature
Time: 20th Century; 19th Century
Characters: James Joyce
W. B. Yeats
T. S. Eliot

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