 Those who were connected struggled to find an audience, for Americans were reluctant to see value for them in what they considered the art forms of fin de siècle France.An exception to this is the decadent poet George Sylvester Viereck- who wrote (1907) "Nineveh and Other Poems".Viereck states in his "The Candle and the Flame" (1912)

Poet Francis Saltus Saltus was inspired by Charles Baudelaire, and his unpracticed style occasionally was compared to the French poet's more refined experimentation.