Decadence and Symbolism

Collecting together eighty-six different pieces of prose from sixty-one authors, Decadence and Sybmolism: A Showcase Anthology, is the most broad-ranging anthology of its kind. Surveying the movements from their beginnings onward, the volume brings together texts from well-known exponents such as Rimbaud and Baudelaire, as well as numerous lesser-known authors, many of whose work is being made available in English for the first time.

Editor and translator Brian Stableford provides an in-depth introductory essay, as well as brief biographies of the various personalities presented.

Complete list of authors included:

Charles Baudelaire

Arthur Rimbaud

Théophile Gautier

Xavier Forneret

Théodore de Banville

Paul Verlaine

X. B. Saintine

Auguste de Villiers de l’Isle Adam

Ernest Hello

Catulle Mendès

Joris-Karl Huysmans

Charles Cros

Frédéric Champsaur

Stéphane Mallarmé

Jean Moréas

Gustave Kahn

Jules Laforgue

Charles Morice

G. Albert Aurier

Paul Adam

Francis Poictevin

Remy de Gourmont

André-Ferdinand Herold

Adolphe Retté

Bernard Lazare

Jean Lorrain

Pierre Louÿs

Camille Mauclair

Stuart Merrill

Éphraïm Mikhaël

Henri de Régnier

Jules Renard

Saint-Pol-Roux

Gabriel de Lautrec

Pierre Quilllard

Marcel Schwob

Frédéric Boutet

Pierre Veber

Tristan Bernard

Judith Gautier

Hugues Rebell

Gaston Danville

May Armand Blanc

Renée Vivien

Alfred Jarry

Francis Jammes

J. H. Rosny aîné

Henri Austruy

Léon Bloy

Jean Richepin

Louis Codet

Léon Daudet

Claude Cébel

Jane de La Vaudère

Edmond Haraucourt

Henry Detouche

Hélène de Zuylen de Nyevelt

Jacques Lamer

Gaston Pawlowski

Maurice Magre

Han Ryner