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Axel's Castle: A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 is a 1931 book of literary criticism by Edmund Wilson on the symbolist movement in literature.
Contents
Contents
It includes a brief overview of the movement's origins and chapters on W. B. Yeats, Paul Valéry, T. S. Eliot, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein. Tristan Tzara's Memoirs of Dadaism is one of the appendices.
Serialization
Some of the book's chapters were first serialized in The New Republic.
Title
The book's title refers to Axël, a prose poem by Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam which is discussed along with the works of Arthur Rimbaud in the concluding chapter.
References
Axel's Castle Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA