This major and acclaimed study of the symbolist tradition in England
focuses on the years 1850 to 1900 and discusses the poetry of such as
William Morris, O'Shaughnessy, the Rossettis, Swinburne, Wilde and
Yeats, paintings by Holman Hunt, Millais, Rossetti, Burne-Jones and
others, and critical works by Keble, Ruskin, Carlyle, Arnold, Pater and
Arthur Symons. This volume considers the changes from romantic symbol
through Victorian 'type' and 'emblem' to late romantic image. This study
of both literature and the visual arts is comparative in nature,
attempting to establish an English symbolist tradition as part of an
international development linking the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries. Originally published by Cambridge in 1988, Lother
Hönnighausen's book includes illustrations and a survey of critical
works, defining major research issues and offering suggestions for other
work.