Literary Origins of Surrealism. a New Mysticism in French Poetry

Describes the relation of surrealism to the social and psychological revolt of the first post war period as revealed by its deep antipathy for bourgeois society in order to show that surrealist writings have contributed no so much to each other as to one general revolution in poetic mysticism and lead to the development of a new philosophy of reality. Foreword Contents Introduction I. Surreality II. The Romantic Background III. Baudelaire and the Break with Tradition IV. A Spiritual Crisis V. The Road to the Absolute VI. The Road to Chaos Envoi Bibliography Index of Names