Remy de Gourmont, chief critic of the Symbolist movement, sketches some thirty writers of his generation: Maeterlinck, Verhaeren, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, Laforgue, Huysmans, Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, Gide, Verlaine and others, each with a woodcut mask by Félix Vallotton. His preface argues that art lives by the individuality of the artist, not by schools.
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