Axel´s Castle. A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930

Originally published in 1931, Axel´s Castle was Edmund Wilson´s first book of literary criticism -a landmark work that explored the evolution of the Symbolist movement and its relationship to naturalism. With his signature clarity of style, Wilson examines the concurrent influences on six major twentieth-century writers: William Bultler Yeats, Paul Valéry, T.S. Eliot, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein.