The Heritage of Symbolism.

by Cecil Maurice Bowra

The principal protagonists of the Symbolist movement, Paul Valéry, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stefan George, Alexander Blok and W.B. Yeats, were rightly considered the most eminent poets of their time, but they were also much concerned with theories of poetry and they came to exciting and original conclusions about it. This study of the movement to which they belonged is the first attempt in English to see it as a whole and to assess the peculiar qualities of its achievement and consider some of its fundamental ideas.

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1967

About the author

Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra was an English classical scholar and academic, known for his wit. He was Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, from 1938 to 1970, and served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1951 to 1954.

Reviews

[Ingrid]

My copy is 1951 hardcover printed in Britain

[Rahma Bouhallel · Rating 4 out of 5]

the heritage of symbolism