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Axel's Castle: A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870 - 1930 (The Scribner Library)
Axel's Castle A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870 1930 - The Scribner Library Author:Edmund Wilson 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 Val�ry, T. S. Eliot, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and... more » 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."« less