Editing Remy de Gourmont (section)

==Works==
Gourmont was a literary critic and essayist of great importance, most notably his ''Le Problème du Style''.<ref>Gourmont, Remy de (1902). [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k99853s ''Le Probleme du Style.''] Paris: Société du Mercure de France.</ref> Created in response to [[Antoine Albalat]]'s ''The Art of Writing in Twenty Lessons'' (1899),<ref>{{cite web|last1=Mattix|first1=Micah|date=28 May 2014|title=The Art of Writing Well|url=http://www.theamericanconservative.com/prufrock/the-art-of-writing-well/|access-date=17 Aug 2016|website=theamericanconservative.com|publisher=The American Conservative}}</ref> ''Le Problème du Style'' was a source book for many of the ideas that inspired the literary developments in both England and France<ref>Read, Herbert (1957). ''The Tenth Muse.'' London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.</ref> and was also admired by [[T. S. Eliot]] and [[Ezra Pound]] in that capacity.

His novels, in particular ''Sixtine'', explore the theme of [[Schopenhauerian]] [[Idealism]] with its emphasis on individual [[subjectivity]], as well as the [[Decadent movement|Decadent]] relationship between sexuality and artistic creativity.<ref>{{cite book |last1=France |first1=Peter |title=The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French |date=1995 |publisher=Clarendon Press |isbn=9780198661252 |page=353}}</ref> In 1922 [[Aldous Huxley]] translated Gourmont's novel ''A Virgin Heart''.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/cihm_71634#page/n7/mode/2up ''A Virgin Heart''] (translator Aldous Huxley) Toronto: Musson Books, 1922.</ref>

Gourmont's poetic works include ''Litanies de la Rose'' (1892), ''Les Saintes du Paradis'' (1898), and ''Divertissements'' (1912). His anthology ''Hieroglyphes'' (1894), contains his experiments with the possibilities of sound and rhythm.<ref>Burne (1963).</ref> It plunges from perhaps ironic piety to equally ironic blasphemy, reflecting, more than anything else, his interest in medieval [[Latin literature]], and his works led to a fad for late Latin literature among authors like [[Joris-Karl Huysmans]]. Pound observed in 1915 that the English [[Imagist]] poetic movement derived from the French [[Symbolism (arts)|Symbolistes]],<ref>''The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia'', Ed., Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos and Stephen Adams. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2005, p. 227.</ref> Eliot describing Gourmont as the "critical conscience of his generation".<ref>Eliot, T.S. (1928). Preface to ''The Sacred Wood.'' London: Methuen & Co.</ref>