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THE SYMBOLIST MOVEMENT IN LITERATUREBY ARTHUR SYMONSBritish author Arthur Symons (1865-1945) was an important poet, critic and translator: this book, The Symbolist Movement In Literature (1899), was an influential study early modernist poetry and literature, inspiring poets such as T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W.B. Yeats among others. In this book, Symons explores the work and lives of Flaubert, Baudelaire, Laforgue, Verlaine, Mallarmé, Huysmans, Rimbaud and others. Arthur Symons was known as the 'blond angel', a vagabond poet in the Bohemian tradition of Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud and the Symbolists. Symons spent much of his life in France and Italy; he knew many of the artists and writers of the fin-de-siècle period, including Aubrey Beardsley, Algernon Swinburne, Walter Pater, Edmund Gosse, Joseph Conrad, W.B. Yeats, and Stéphane Mallarmé. This new edition of The Symbolist Movement In Literature includes a note on Arthur Symons; and two galleries of illustrations - of Symbolist writers and poets, and Symbolist art. Illustrated. Paperback, with a full colour cover.www.crmoon.com

This book by Arthur Symons is an important early study of Charles Baudelaire. Symons offers a biography of the poet, and considers his poetry (using many examples).

The history of erotic art in the Renaissance is explored in this detailed and fully illustrated survey.

SAMUEL BECKETT GOES INTO THE SILENCE By Jeremy Robinson A general introduction to the work of Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), focussing on the aspects of philosophy and language. He is regarded as pretty much the greatest of modern and postmodern writers, pretty much the world's greatest modern dramatist, and the maybe greatest modern prose stylist. The texts studied include Beckett's major works, from the Unnamable Trilogy to the late Company/ Nohow series of the 1980s. This book is a new, updated edition of a study first published in 1992. Includes a collection of quotes from Samuel Beckett, photographs of Beckett and his plays, and a bibliography. www.crmoon.com

A survey of women artists from the history of art, including chapters on Artemisia Gentileschi, Barbara Longhi, Mary Cassatt, Berthe Morisot, Marietta Robusti, Angelika Kauffmann and Sofonisba Anguissola.

The Peyote Cult by Weston La Barre (1915-1996) is the classic work on peyotism, originating in Weston La Barre's studies of the use of peyote in the rituals of fifteen Native American tribes in the 1930s. It has been revised many times. This is the latest edition (the fifth, enlarged edition), now back in print.