Symbolism, Expressionism, Decadence
Frank Kermode, 24 January 1980
Romantic Roots in Modern Art
by August Wiedmann.
Gresham, 328 pp., £8.50, July 1980,0 905418 51 4 Show More
by August Wiedmann.
Gresham, 328 pp., £8.50, July 1980,
Decadence and the 1890s
edited by Ian Fletcher.
Arnold, 216 pp., £9.95, July 1980,0 7131 6208 2 Show More
edited by Ian Fletcher.
Arnold, 216 pp., £9.95, July 1980,
“... notes the total lack of connection between the two isms mentioned and ‘what Eliot defined’. Mr Wiedmann, whose ‘study in comparative aesthetics’ has a whole section on ‘dissociation of sensibility’, doesn’t as much as mention Eliot, merely saying that the phrase is ‘currently in vogue’. The Expressionists, he argues, had ‘a touching faith ... ”
