Quintessence of the Minor: Symbolist Poetry in English

By Garrett Caples Description Reviews This title is no longer available. The inaugural publication in Wave’s Pamphlet Series, Garrett Caples’ Quintessence of the Minor presents a comprehensive survey of neglected, oft-brilliant and oft-imperfect Symbolist poets, revealing—with acuity, erudition and blessed candor—an entire tradition of forgotten, though no less invaluable and invigorating, poets and poetry. Caples avers that to “write major poetry, the poet perhaps must resist the major, to find fault with what, at a given time, is held to be major poetry and propose another way...”.Quintessence of the Minor is available directly from Wave Books, and from a small number of participating bookstores nationwide. Please see the Pamphlet Series page for more information on the Wave Books Pamphlet Series. Quintessence of the Minor is smart and well-written; regardless of whether the subject-poet gets a couple sentences or a couple pages, Caples’ discussions are careful, nuanced,