The Symbolist Archive: First English translations of rare French literary works

























Mallarmé in Memory

Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France 
via Wikimedia Commons




Albert MOCKEL

Stéphane Mallarmé, A Hero (1899)

Henri de RÉGNIER

Three Pieces

Téodor de WYZEWA

Mallarmé

Léopold DAUPHIN

Four Articles on Stéphane Mallarmé (1912)

Édouard DUJARDIN

Mallarmé by One of His Own

Émile VERHAEREN

A few words on Mallarmé

Camille MAUCLAIR

Mallarmé’s Quest

René GHIL

Stéphane Mallarmé













Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-Adam

Auguste de Villiers de L’Isle-Adam





An Evening at Nina de Villard’s

Akedysseril

Téodor de WYZEWA

The Count de Villiers de L’Isle-Adam: Notes

Remy de GOURMONT

Remembering Villiers de L’Isle-Adam













Charles Morice

Portrait of the Poet Charles Morice
by Eugène Carrière




La littérature de tout à l’heure

(What’s at Play in Literature Today?)













Petrus Borel

Pétrus Borel, etching by Célestin Nanteuil
After a painting by Louis Boulanger,
exhibited at the Salon of 1839




“Prologue,” in Madame Putiphar (1839)













Édouard Dujardin

Portrait of Édouard Dujardin
by Félix Vallotton, 1898




La Revue Wagnérienne













Léon Dierx

Léon Dierx (1838-1912). 
Photograph by Paul Marsan dit Dornac.




The Companions













Octave Mirbeau

Photograph of Octave Mirbeau by Dornac, 
from the series “Our Contemporaries at Home”.




Les Écrivains in English translation, two volumes













Philothée O’Neddy

O’Neddy, design signed by Duseigneur for a medaillon.





Feu et flamme”, Avant-propos

Spleen













Émile Hennequin

Edgar Allan Poe













Gustave Kahn

Portrait of French poet Gustave Kahn





Free Verse













Stuart Merrill

Stuart Merrill, portrait by Albert E. Sterner, 1913





When we were Symbolists













Paul Verlaine

Paul Verlaine. 
Photograph by Jules Dornac,
circa 1895. Paris, Musée Carnavalet.




I Will Love None But













Ernest Raynaud

Ernest Raynaud. 
Portrait by Frédéric-Auguste Cazals.




An Evening at Paul Verlaine’s

The Symbolist Mêlée (1890-1900)










George Bonnamour

George Bonnamour
Almanach de la Patrie Française pour 1900, Paris, 1899





Thirteen: A Dialogue













Adolphe Retté

Adolphe Retté (1863–1930), 
French poet and writer




Symbolism: Anecdotes and Memories





















Jean MORÉAS

The Preface to Le Pèlerin passionné

Anatole FRANCE

The New Poetry – Jean Moréas

Maurice BARRÈS

Jean Moréas – A Symbolist

Maurice DU PLESSYS

Symbolist New Year’s Gifts

Achille DELAROCHE

The Annals of Symbolism

Léon BLOY

The Funeral Rites of Naturalism

























Gaston and Jules COUTURAT

The Symbolist Fiasco

Camille MAUCLAIR

The Modern Athenians – Jean Moréas