The Symbolist Art of Fernand Khnopff, by Jeffery Howe
UMI Research Press, 1982.

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• Dante Gabriel Rossetti - poetry

Poems related to his paintings, including: Found, A Sea Spell, The Day-Dream, Astarte Syriaca, Proserpina, Mary's Girlhood

• A.C. Swinburne: "Before the Mirror" -- poem written for Whistler painting, Symphony in White #2: The Little White Girl, 1864.
• Whistler on art - quotes
• Whistler:  The Ten O'Clock Lecture
• Whistler:  The Red Rag

• Baudelaire on Art (Heroism of Modern Life, Dandyism)
• Walter Pater on the Mona Lisa
• Oscar Wilde, preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray

Selected Quotes on Decadence

A Brief Chronology of Decadence

Occultism in the 19th Century -- brief chronology

Symbolism -- Poetry

• Baudelaire: "Correspondences"
• Baudelaire:  "Anywhere out of the World"
• Baudelaire:  "Invitation to the Voyage"
• Christina Rossetti: "Who Shall Deliver Me?"-- poem which inspired Fernand Khnopff's painting I lock my door upon myself (in part, anyway)
• Maurice Maeterlinck:  "Soul of Glass"
• Stephane Mallarme:  "Breeze Marine"
• Stephane Mallarme:  "The Swan"
• Albert Samain:  "The Vision"

• The Intruder (1890), by Maurice Maeterlinck.

A short Symbolist play connected to Gauguin's Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?

• Symbolism and Art Nouveau -- a Brief Chronology
• Symbolism -- Critical Responses
• The Discovery of the Unconscious in the 19th century -- chronology
• Gustave Moreau - quotes on art
• Gauguin on art
• Rodin on Art