| PAULVERLAINE | 19th Century French poet associated with the Symbolist and Decadent movements (4,8) |
| VERLAINE | Paul ___, French poet of the Symbolist and Decadent movements; Poemes saturniens (1866), Romances sans paroles (1874) etc. (8) |
| FERLINGHETTI | Poet associated with the Beat generation who died at the age of 101 earlier this year |
| DOWSON | Poet associated with the Decadent movement of Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley who, in Vitae Summa B |
| EFFETE | Overrefined and decadent (6) |
| EDMUNDWILSON | US critic, noted especially for Axel's Castle, a study of the symbolist movement |
| PICABIA | Francis ___, French painter and poet associated with both the Dada and Surrealist art movements |
| BROWN | Author of Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code and other novels in the series featuring the symbolist character Robert Langdon (5) |
| REMYDEGOURMONT | Which French writer and critic was a leader of the Symbolist movement, co-founded the periodical Le |
| BAUDELAIRE | Charles Pierre ___, 19th-century French poet who authored the collection Les Fleurs du mal (10) |
| DEMUSSET | Alfred ___, 19th-century French poet and dramatist whose plays include Lorenzaccio (2,6) |
| PAUL | First name of the late 19th century French poet Verlaine (4) |
| RIMBAUD | 19th Century French poet whose work influenced the surrealists (7) |
| MARTIAL | Poet associated with arts and law |
| DOUGLAS | Lord Alfred, poet associated with Oscar Wilde (7) |
| LARKING | British poet associated with gravity is having a merry time (7) |
| MALLARME | Stephane ?, 19th-century French poet whose works include L'Apres-midi d'un faune |
| ARION | Ancient Greek poet associated with a dolphin |
| LARKIN | Coventry-born poet associated with Hull (6) |
| ELIOT | Poet associated with "Cats" |
