Book digitized by Google from the library of University of California and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Includes reproductions of portraits of Catulle Mendès, S. Mallarmé, Verhaeren, G. Rodenbach, F. Severin, A. Retté, S. Merrill, Signoret, J. Richepin, and Maurice Barrès Many reproductions of woodcut and other portraits throughout the text. Artists include Vallotton, Cazals, Jossot Paul Verlaine -- Stéphane Mallarmé -- The Belgian renascence: Camille Lemonnier, Maurice Maeterlinck, Émile Verhaeren, Georges Eekhoud, Georges Rodenbach, Max Elskamp and Fernand Severin -- The last of the Parnassians: Catulle Mendès -- Jean Moréas and his disciples -- The new poetry: free verse: Adolphe Retté, Henri de Régnier, Stuart Merrill and Francis Vielé-Griffin, Emmanuel Signoret and Albert Samain -- The paganism of Pierre Louys -- Jean Richepin and the vagrom man -- The Christ of Jehan Rictus -- Maurice Barrès and egoism -- Fables, ballads, pastorals: Jules Renard, Paul Fort, Francis Jammes -- The new Erasmus: Marcel Schwob -- Naturism and Saint-Georges de Bouhélier -- Men of letters and anarchy -- The new criticism: Ernest La Jeunesse -- "In the gentlemanly interest": Hugues Rebell, M. le comte Robert de Montesquiou Fezensac Copyright 1899: 35056