Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Contemporary French Poetry
The Parnassian school of poetry was definitely killed about 1885 by a new generation of poets whom their enemies christened les decadents. Some of them accepted the name; but it fell into disuse among themselves as the term symbolists gained ground.
There is a prevalent notion among the ill-informed that the decadents, or, better, symbolists were, or are, perverted voluptuaries, with no more back bone than a lampern, victims of hyperaesthesia.
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