The SYMBOLIST SALON is an extensive website devoted to the European Symbolist movement of the late 19-century, including its many precursors & offshoots. Among features found on this site are: ~~ A Dark Subterranean Stream: Death & Decadence in European Romantic Literature & Art, from the mid-Eighteenth to the late-Nineteenth Centuries, by BJ Omanson. ~~ Illustrated Chronology of European Decadence, Symbolism & Occultism — as well as the 18th-Century Graveyard Poets, together with other Early Practitioners & Later Masters of the Gothic Genre; Precursors of Decadence & Symbolism, the Pre-Raphaelites, & the 19th-Century Discovery of the Unconscious. ~~ Definitions of Decadence ~~~ Definitions of Symbolism ~~~ Robert Blair’s “The Grave” ~~~ Tennyson’s “Mariana of the Moated Grange” ~~~ Ruskin’s “The Nature of Gothic” ~~~ A Brief Biographical Sketch, with Chronology, of Charles Baudelaire ~~~ Baudelaire on the Decadent Movement ~~~ Swinburne’s elegy to Baudelaire: “Ave Atque Vale” ~~~ A Brief Biographical Sketch, with Chronology, of Joris Karl Huysmans ~~~ Havelock Ellis on Huysmans ~~~ Selections from Husymans’ decadent masterpiece, Au Rebours ~~~ Bibliography of Decadence & Symbolism ~~~ and much more . . .


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