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"The Song of Wandering Aengus," "The Cap and Bells," ''He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven," and "The Secret Rose." Although the French Symbolist movement had a direct influence on relatively few British poets of the nineties, possibly because of its close relationship with Decadence and because of its tendency to obscurity, Symbolist theory and practicelike that of Aestheticism and Decadencenevertheless became part of the mainstream of twentieth-century modernism.
Further Reading
Beckson, Karl.
Arthur Symons: A Life
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Beckson, Karl.
London in the 1890s: A Cultural History
. New York: Norton, 1993.
Buckley, Jerome Hamilton.
The Victorian Temper: A Study in Literary Culture
. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1951; New York: Random House, 1964.
Buckley, Jerome Hamilton.
William Ernest Henley: A Study in the "Counter-Decadence" of the 'Nineties
. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1945; New York: Octagon, 1971.
Dobrée, Bonamy.
Rudyard Kipling: Realist and Fabulist
. London: Oxford University Press, 1967.
Ellmann, Richard.
The Identity of Yeats
. 2d ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967.
Hönnighausen, Lothar.
The Symbolist Tradition in English Literature: A Study of Pre-Raphaelitism and Fin de Siècle
. Translated by Gisela Hönnighausen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Kermode, Frank.
Romantic Image
. London: Routledge, 1957; New York: Vintage, 1957.
Leggett, B. J.
Housman's Land of Lost Content: A Critical Study of A Shropshire Lad
. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1970.
Longaker, Mark.
Ernest Dowson
. 3d ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennyslvania Press, 1967.
McCormack, Jerusha Hull.
John Gray: Dandy, Poet, and Priest
. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1991.
Munro, John M.
The Decadent Poetry of the Eighteen Nineties
. Beirut: American University of Beirut, 1970.
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