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Synesthesia was a prized experience; poets sought to identify and confound the separate senses of scent, sound, and colour. In Baudelaire 's poem Correspondences (which mentions forêts de symboles ("forests of symbols") and is considered the touchstone of French Symbolism): [ 10 ]
Jules Laforgue (French: [ʒyl lafɔʁɡ]; 16 August 1860 – 20 August 1887) was a Franco-Uruguayan poet, often referred to as a Symbolist poet. Critics and commentators have also pointed to Impressionism as a direct influence and his poetry has been called "part-symbolist, part-impressionist". [1]
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.
The Symbolist Movement in Literature, first published in 1899, and with additional material in 1919, is a work by Arthur Symons largely credited with bringing French Symbolism to the attention of Anglo-American literary circles.
The Symbolist Manifesto (French: Le Symbolisme) was published on 18 September 1886 [1] in the French newspaper Le Figaro by the Greek-born poet and essayist Jean Moréas.It describes a new literary movement, an evolution from and rebellion against both romanticism and naturalism, and it asserts the name of Symbolism as not only appropriate for that movement, but also uniquely reflective of how ...
At the end, the guiltless song of Eve falls silent as she is reabsorbed into the universe from which she first emerged into individuality. Van Lerberghe's anticlericalism was carried over into the prose of his three-act satirical comedy Pan , published in February 1906 by Mercure de France , which celebrates the triumph of its protagonist's ...
Russian symbolism had begun to lose its momentum in literature by the 1910s as many younger poets were drawn to the acmeist movement, which distanced itself from excesses of symbolism, or joined the futurists, an iconoclastic group which sought to recreate art entirely, eschewing all aesthetic conventions.
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.