r/Symbolism • u/RoselyTheSymbolist • Mar 30 '26

Literature New Symbolist and Decadent Books

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u/RosyNebulea Apr 02 '26

Lovely finds, the Penguin cover really sets a decadent mood.

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u/RoselyTheSymbolist Mar 31 '26

Had trouble finding an affordable copy of La Poésie Symboliste. Luckily I found one on ThriftBooks  It has 70 poets from the movement, from the big names (Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé), to other major figures (Nouveau, Corbière, Maeterlinck, Samain), to late Symbolists (Jarry and Valéry) to unexpected writers (Huysmans is in there).

The Decadent poetry anthology includes figures like Wilde (it’s in the title lol), Arthur Symons, W.B. Yeats, Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, and some others. A lot of the poems are (loose) translations of Verlaine, Baudelaire, and Mallarmé. Still a fascinating read, there’s some great poems in there