Cover -- About the Contributors -- About FyfieldBooks -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- A Note on the Text and Annotations -- The Life of Arthur Symons -- The Symbolist Movement in Literature -- Section I: Essays Included in the 1908 Edition -- Introduction -- Gérard de Nerval -- Villiers de l'Isle-Adam -- Arthur Rimbaud -- Paul Verlaine -- Jules Laforgue -- Stéphane Mallarmé -- The Later Huysmans -- Maeterlinck as a Mystic -- Conclusion -- Section II: Essays Added to the 1919 Edition -- Joris-Karl Huysmans -- A Note on Zola's Method -- Edmond and Jules de Goncourt -- Balzac -- Prosper Mérimée -- Gustave Flaubert -- Théophile Gautier -- Léon Cladel -- Charles Baudelaire -- Appendix 1. The Decadent Movement in Literature -- Appendix 2. Translations Added to the 1919 Edition -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography and Further Reading.