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The Symbolist Manifesto names Charles Baudelaire, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Paul Verlaine as the three leading poets of the movement. Moréas announced that symbolism was hostile to "plain meanings, declamations, false sentimentality and matter-of-fact description", and that its goal instead was to "clothe the Ideal in a perceptible form" whose ...
George Frederick Watts sought in his works a "poetry painted on canvas", a mysterious painting influenced by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones and Fernand Khnopff, as well as Titian and Joseph Mallord William Turner. His aim was to paint "great ideas", seeking concordance between painting, literature and music, which was reflected in a ...
Albert Aurier wrote decadent pieces for Le Décadent and also wrote symbolist poetry and art criticism. [12] Decadent writer Rachilde was staunchly opposed to a symbolist take over of Le Décadent [5] even though her own one-act drama The Crystal Spider is almost certainly a symbolist work. [34]
Verlaine's birthplace in Metz, today a museum dedicated to the poet's life and artwork. Paul-Marie Verlaine (/ v ɛər ˈ l ɛ n / vair-LEN; [1] French: [pɔl maʁi vɛʁlɛn]; 30 March 1844 – 8 January 1896) was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement and the Decadent movement.
Jules-Jean-Paul Fort (1 February 1872 – 20 April 1960) was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement.At the age of 18, reacting against the Naturalistic theatre, Fort founded the Théâtre d'Art (1890–93).
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Charles van Lerberghe's photo portrait for Entrevisions, 1898. Charles van Lerberghe (21 October 1861 – 26 October 1907) was a Belgian author who wrote in French and was particularly identified with the Symbolist movement.
Alexandru Macedonski (Romanian pronunciation: [alekˈsandru mat͡ʃeˈdonski]; also rendered as Al. A. Macedonski, Macedonschi or Macedonsky; 14 March 1854 – 24 November 1920) was a Romanian poet, novelist, dramatist and literary critic, known especially for having promoted French Symbolism in his native country, and for leading the Romanian Symbolist movement during its early decades.