Our unfortunate York Compromise with oursymbolistic brethren failed, like all compromises.
These have been thought to owe something to Edgar Poe, but they much more nearly resemble the work of the latest symbolistic schools.
Here is again the singular Pre-Raphaelite and symbolistic scenery, with its images from art and not from nature.
This quality, however, is not the monopoly of Symbolistic poetry, but belongs to all kinds of poetry.
The Symbolistic tendency is designedly called ‘neo-Catholic,’ and certain critics pointed to its appearance and success as a proof that freethought was overthrown by faith.
The general broadening of literary variety has, of course, given us in recent times many valuable stories of the symbolistic kind.
The fable as allegory and the more extended allegories, even those complex enough to be called symbolistic stories, the seventh and eighth grades in the average school will read and interpret acceptably.
There are certain modern symbolistic stories containing elements of the fantastic and supernatural kind that are good and beautiful enough to make a genuinely desirable contribution to the child's experience.
But as the children grow more penetrating, the fable is the best possible form of symbolistic literature to set them at first.
We should distinguish myth from saga, from legend, from merely fanciful symbolistic tales, from tales of human heroes.
These, with the minor exercise in the apprehension and interpretation of figures of speech, will be their share of the symbolistic kind of writing for several years.
An occasional symbolistic nut to crack is not a bad thing for the older children of the grades.
To the younger children the sacred outside appearance, the entrancing Schein, of things is best, and symbolistic art only baffles them or unduly forces their powers.
It need hardly be said that the exercises in the symbolistic kinds of literature are to be inserted here and there among the other lessons.
They have all been worked over, codified, filled with theological andsymbolistic content by priests and poets.
