In the subtleties of suggestion latent in sensations the symbolists were real discoverers.
With the Symbolists 'free verse' was an attempt to capture finer modulations of music than the rigid frame of metre allowed.
But by the French symbolists it was pursued as a creed, as a religion.
But what is most curious is the number of absolutely dissimilar senses which the oldest symbolists attribute to the buckthorn.
We need not dwell on the bull, the bison and the buffalo; the symbolists regard them as emblems of brute force and pride; while the goat and boar-pig are vessels of lust and filth.
They also began by restoring the liturgy and Church singing; then they discovered certain lost texts of the subtle symbolists and learned saints, and collected them in a Spicilegium and Analectae.
Even when the absurdity is an application of the theories of the symbolists it is often apt to raise a laugh, e.
There is nothing of this awakening courage to live in the collection of poems modelled on folksong (the symbolists generally learned much from folksong) which Maeterlinck published in this year of 1896.
Both poets were idealists among the naturalists; their idealism is a bridge spanning naturalism and joining the romanticists with the symbolists or neo-romanticists.
One of the features which distinguish the poetry of the symbolists is the mixing of genres.
It is noteworthy that many of the Symbolists have given their books titles which are intended to awaken musical ideas.
Similarly, the Symbolists displace all the natural boundary lines of art, and impose upon the word a task which belongs to musical signs only.
It is, therefore, a piece of foolish arrogance in the Symbolists to lay claim to the sole possession of this quality in the works of their school.
But while the pre-Raphaelites wish to raise the fine arts to a higher rank than is suited to them, the Symbolists greatly degrade the word.
The appearance of the Pélerin passionné in 1891 was celebrated by the Symbolists as an event which was to be the beginning of a new era in poetry.
The drivelling of the Symbolists was not entirely lost in the atmosphere of their café, like the smoke of their pipes and cigarettes.
This symbolism we have encountered among all degenerates, among symbolistsproperly so called, and other mystics, as well as among diabolists, and principally in Ibsen.
This triumph of the Symbolists marks the victory of the gang over the individual.
Goethe created symbolic poetry in the second part of Faust half a century before Ibsen and the French Symbolists parodied this tendency.
It was he who drew the attention of the Symbolists to this school, and enjoined imitation of it.
The more reliable Symbolists proclaim their movement as ‘a reaction against naturalism.
Another æsthetic demand of the Symbolists is that the line should, independently of its sense, call forth an intended emotion merely by its sound.
The ‘new reviews’ of the Symbolistsand Instrumentists, La Revue blanche, La Plume, etc.
The other Symbolists produced nothing of the same calibre, and they failed to attract the public.
The Symbolists of the early twentieth century (all the great poets of the generation were Symbolists) tried also to create a prose of their own.
But they are all, in the essentials of poetry, children of the Symbolistswhose work remains the great modern contribution of France to poetical literature.
Gourmont, like the Symbolists whom he describes in this volume, founded his theory of the arts upon a metaphysical speculation.
One movement in the entire range of modern poetry and only one surpasses the movement of the French Symbolists in clearness of beauty, depth of feeling, wealth and variety of music.
We are really, in studying the descriptive parts of the Classicist poets, very close to the theories of Mallarmé and the Symbolists which occupied us twenty years ago.
The remarkable experiments of the Symbolists of twenty years ago, and their effect upon the whole body of French verse, leads me to expect a continuous movement in that direction.
The roar and dust of the daily battle of the Realists was continued under the flush of the sunset, the arms of the Romantics glittered, the pale spiritual Symbolists watched and waited, none knowing yet of their presence.
He is the true decadent of the nineteenth-century literature, to whom the decadent French symbolists cannot hold a candle.
The symbolists crowded out the realists in literature and the Neo-Impressionists felt the call of Form as opposed to Colour.
The "poisonous honey" of French decadents and symbolists has attracted one party; and the others are being swallowed up in the pessimistic nebula of "mystic anarchy" and fatalism.
The remarkable experiments of the Symbolists of twenty years ago, and their effect upon the whole body of French verse, lead me to expect a continuous movement in that direction.
Byzantine art, one of our links with the East, should some day furnish us with a key to a mystery which is now obscured by symbolists and students of serpent worship.
However morbid the sentiment in some of his work, and often there was a macabre, an unholy insistence on the less beautiful side of human things, the cabala of the symbolists was a sealed book to him.
But, instead of this work of love, our benightedsymbolists have strengthened the prejudices of the foreigners in saying to them that the Lutheranism of the General Synod is a pseudo-Lutheranism.
Unconsciously or as the result of reflection some symbolists have come to this extreme trial, which the logic of events imposed upon them.
The Symbolistsof the nineteenth century cared greatly for potential speech.
The naturalists affected the art of painting, the symbolists the art of music; and since the symbolists there has been no artistic manifestation--the game is played out.
A banquet was held at the Cafe Voltaire, where all the Symbolists were assembled.
Durand-Ruel gave him a gallery and Charles Morice, chief of the young symbolists whom Gauguin had met after the Volpini show, wrote a preface to the catalog, which probably only served to mystify the public still further.
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