Introduction: The Manifesto of Symbolism / Symbolism -- First Scene -- Scene II -- Symbolism in Literature -- Symbolist Poems -- Charles Baudelaire, A Carcass -- Charles Baudelaire, Correspondances -- Charles Baudelaire, Spleen -- René Ghil, In the Times of the Gods -- Remy de Gourmont, Hieroglyphs -- Joris-Karl Huysmans, Preliminary Sonnet -- Alfred Jarry, Bards and Cords -- Gustave Kahn, The Cup -- Jules Laforgue, Complaint of the Pianos One Hears in Better Neighbourhoods -- Maurice Maeterlinck, Foliage of the Heart -- Stéphane Mallarmé, Afternoon of A Faun (extract) -- Robert de Montesquiou, Hymn to the Night -- Jean Moréas, Sensuality -- Anna de Noailles, Death said to the Man ... -- Henri de Régnier, To Stéphane Mallarmé -- Arthur Rimbaud, Vowels -- Saint-Pol-Roux, The Purifying Rain -- Paul Valéry, Hélène -- Emile Verhaeren, The Rock (extract) -- Paul Verlaine, Poetic Art -- Paul Verlaine, Languor -- Symbolism in Art -- -- Major Artists: -- Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (Lyon, 1824 -- Paris, 1898) -- Arnold Böcklin (Basle, 1827 -- Zurich, 1901) -- Gustave Moreau (Paris, 1828 -- Paris, 1898) -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti (London, 1828 -- Birchington-on-Sea, 1882) -- Edward Burne-Jones (Birmingham, 1833 -- London, 1898) -- Odilon Redon (Bordeaux, 1840 -- Paris, 1916) -- Eugène Carrière (Gournay-sur-Marne, 1849 -- Paris, 1906) -- Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel (Omsk, 1856 -- St Petersburg, 1910) -- Fernand Khnopff (Grembergen-lez-Termonde, 1858 -- Brussels, 1921) -- Jan Toorop (Purworedjo, 1858 -- The Hague, 1928) -- Edvard Munch (Løten, 1863 -- Ekely, 1944) -- Franz von Stuck (Tettenweis, 1863 -- Munich, 1928) -- Jens Ferdinand Willumsen (Copenhagen, 1863 -- Le Canet, 1958) -- Maurice Denis (Granville, 1870 -- Paris, 1943).