Full name: Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930

Author: Edmund Wilson Year: 1931 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Essays, History, Poetry Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780374529277 0374529272

Published in 1931, Axel's Castle was Edmund Wilson's first book of literary criticism--a landmark book that explores the evolution of the French Symbolist movement and considers its influence on six major twentieth-century writers: William Butler Yeats, Paul Valery, T. S. Eliot, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein. As Alfred Kazin later wrote, "Wilson was an original, an extraordinary literary artist . . . He could turn any literary subject back into the personal drama it had been for the writer."