PARNASSIANS

pärnăsˈēənz, group of 19th-century French poets, so called from their journal the Parnasse contemporain. Issued from 1866 to 1876, it included poems of Leconte de Lisle, Banville, Sully-Prudhomme, Verlaine, Coppée, and J. M. de Heredia. The Parnassians were influenced by Théophile Gautier and his doctrine of art for art's sake. In reaction to the looser forms of romantic poetry, they strove for exact and faultless workmanship, selecting exotic and classical subjects which they treated with rigidity of form and emotional detachment.

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books on: Parnassians  - 227 results

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The French Parnassian Poets
Book by Robert T. Denommé; Southern Illinois University Press, 1972
Subjects: French Poetry--19th Century--History And Criticism, Parnassianism
...of the group which called itself the Parnassians, taking the name from that of the books...introductory discussion of the entire Parnassian movement and his analysis of Gautiers...Poets , here takes up the cause of the Parnassians, who have been too-long neglected...
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A History of French Literature
Book by C. H. Conrad Wright; Oxford University Press, 1912
Subjects: French Literature--History And Criticism, French Literature--History And Criticism--Bibliography
...1 Among the minor Parnassians must be mentioned: Albert...no less famous skit on the Parnassians. Other poets were Joseph...many ways a precursor of the Parnassians; Amedee Pommier 1804-1877...charming poems as a young Parnassian and follower of Banville...
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Verlaine: Fool of God
Book by Lawrence, Elisabeth Hanson; Random House, 1957
Subjects: Fiction, Verlaine, Paul--1844-1896
...mostly Hugo, Baudelaire and one or two Parnassians, the moderns of the late sixties...1866 and several volumes of poetry by Parnassians, Banville and Leconte de Lisle particularly...Rimbaud, " Credo in unam ," beat the Parnassians at their own game; it was an astonishingly...
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Modern Brazil New Patterns and Development
Book by John Saunders; University of Florida Press, 1971
Subjects: Brazil--Economic Conditions--1945-, Brazil--Social Conditions
...Hunter , is narrative. Among other Parnassians, mention should be made of Vicente...with a religious note rare in the Parnassian school, which tended to be somewhat...life which were important to the Parnassians. They were concerned with what...
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The Truest Poetry: An Essay on the Question: What Is Literature?
Book by Laurence Lerner; Hamish Hamilton, 1960
Subjects: Criticism, Literature--Aesthetics, Literature--Philosophy, Poetry
...not new. In part, it comes from the Parnassians, and in greater part from Poe. Indeed...than Poe, and more important than the Parnassians; as we see when we turn to his poetry...is expressing; and the work of the Parnassians is not fundamentally different from...
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journal articles on: Parnassians  - 16 results

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The Archduke Rudolph, Beethoven's Patron and Parnassian Pupil
Journal article by Susan Kagan; The Beethoven Newsletter, Vol. 7, 1992
The Archduke Rudolph, Beethovens Patron and Parnassian Pupil by Susan Kagan WHEN BEETHOVEN LEFT BONN IN 1792 TO TAKE UP PERMANENT RESIDENCE IN VIENNA, he carried with him the good wishes...
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Crossroad of Arts, Crossroad of Cultures: Ecphrasis in Russian and French Poetry
Journal article by Mark Knighton; Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 44, 2002
Subjects: Art, Culture, France, French literature, History & criticism, Nonfiction, Poetry, Rubins, Maria, Russia, Russian literature
...the work of the Parnassians Heredia, Leconte...influences on the Parnassians. Among distinctly Parnassian features she lists...nouveau. As with the Parnassians, the cult of form...the case for Parnassian influence on the...
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"Honesty and Vulgar Praise": the Poet's War and the Literary Field
Journal article by Edward Gieskes; Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England, Vol. 18, 2005
...debasement of all traditional markets, the Parnassians retreat from London. The play closes...of the placeless educated-and the Parnassians final rejection of the world of professional...open and contentious market. Where the Parnassians and the University Wits (especially...
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Baudelaire, Degeneration Theory, and Literary Criticism in Fin De Siecle Spain
Journal article by Glyn Hambrook; The Modern Language Review, Vol. 101, 2006
Subjects: Baudelaire, Charles--Criticism and interpretation, Baudelaire, Charles--Works, French poetry--Criticism and interpretation
...and sentiments had given rise to the Parnassians (pp. 270-75, 273-75) and Aesthetes...exhibiting the symptoms characteristic of the Parnassians and Diabolists (pp. 270-71), such...intellectual chief and model of the Parnassians, and his influence dominates the present...
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Edmund Gosse and the Stubborn Villanelle Blunder
Journal article by Amanda L. French; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 48, 2010
Subjects: Authors--Criticism and interpretation, Authors--Influence, Gosse, Edmund--Criticism and interpretation, Gosse, Edmund--Influence, Villanelles--Analysis, Villanelles--History, Writers--Criticism and interpretation, Writers--Influence
...14) Authors of the "modern school" (later, the Parnassians) such as Theophile Gautier and Emile Deschamps called for...same source pp. 157-164 for a discussion of the French Parnassians and the stanzaic villanelle. (22) Edmund Gosse, "Austin...
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Harold Wilson's Philosopher of Porn Is Our Greatest Thinker on Ethics, Offering a Vision of Truth as Triumphing over All
Magazine article by A.C. Grayling; New Statesman, Vol. 131, September 2, 2002
Subjects: Philosophers--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Philosophy, English--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Williams, Bernard--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...London, as well as being a Fellow of All Souls, Oxford. Williams, in short, has been more expansive than his fellow Parnassians in geographical and public respects, which is why he is more salient in the national consciousness -- his departure for...
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Emmanuel Chabrier & French Musical Tradition
Magazine article by James F. Penrose; New Criterion, Vol. 19, January 2001
Subjects: Chabrier, Emmanuel--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Composers--Criticism, interpretation, etc., France--Music, Musical criticism--Analysis
...He also made initial contact with the Parnassians, the post-romantic literary movement...Fantin-Latour. He was a regular at the Parnassian salon of the Marquise de Ricard along...would say to a potential conquest. Her Parnassian salon was characterized in the Goncourts...
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Why Paris?
Magazine article by James Panero; Humanities, Vol. 31, November 2010
Subjects: Artists, Cities, Innovations
...them high on cocaine, but that doesnt matter: the principles of most Parnassois (so cai fed to distinguish them from the Parnassians) are opposed to the consumption of artificial paradises in any shape or form." By the end of the first decade of the twentieth...
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Rimbaud: Sophist of Insanity
Magazine article by Eric Ormsby; New Criterion, Vol. 19, June 2001
Subjects: Authors, French--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Poets--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Rhetoric--Usage, Rimbaud, Arthur--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...but well-aimed swings of his rhetorical wrecking ball he seemed to fracture and upend all the flimsy subterfuges of the Parnassians among whom, to his signal disgust, he found himself whenever he fled to Paris from dreary Charleville. The famous injunction...
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Uncovering a Literary Treasury
Magazine article; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 44, March 1992
Subjects: Literary newspapers and periodicals--Discovery, exploration, etc.
...During its early stages modernism tended to disassociate itself from the Spanish tradition and seek inspiration in the French Parnassians and symbolists. The modernists also looked to North American writers, such as Walt Whitman and Edgar Allan Poe. They rejected...


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newspaper articles on: Parnassians  - 3 results

 
 
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Horse Racing: Parnassian Set to Shine
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), October 25, 2006
Subjects: Horse racing, Horse-racing
Horse Racing: Parnassian Set to Shine. Byline: BY ARGUS PARNASSIAN was a very impressive winner on his most recent outing...Geakes gelding has twice won off his new mark of 70. Parnassian loves the soft ground he will surely encounter and...
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Horse Racing: Parnassian Set to Shine
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), October 25, 2006
Subjects: Horse racing, Horse-racing
Horse Racing: Parnassian Set to Shine. Byline: By ARGUS PARNASSIAN was a very impressive winner on his most recent outing...Geakes gelding has twice won off his new mark of 70. Parnassian loves the soft ground he will surely encounter and...
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Everything Points to a Parnassian Win
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), October 25, 2006
Everything Points to a Parnassian Win. Parnassian was an impressive winner on his most recent outing and appeals...Geakes gelding has twice won off his new mark of 70. Parnassian loves the soft ground he will surely encounter and as a...


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encyclopedia articles on: Parnassians  - 16 results

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Parnassians
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PARNASSIANS parnas e nz, group of 19th-century French poets, so called from...Sully-Prudhomme, Verlaine, Coppee, and J. M. de Heredia. The Parnassians were influenced by Theophile Gautier and his doctrine of art for arts...
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Gautier, ThÉophile
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...novel Le Capitaine Fracasse (1863), and LHistoire de lart dramatique en France (1858 59). He prepared the way for the Parnassians and symbolists in their reaction against romanticism. See studies by A. B. Smith (1977), R. Shell (1982), and K...
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Symbolists
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...was later extended to the other arts. The early symbolists experimented with form, revolting against the rigidity of the Parnassians with a free verse that has outlived the movement itself. The precursors of the school, all influenced by Baudelaire, included...
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Casal, JuliÁn Del
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...poet, b. Havana. A friend of Ruben Dario, Casal became a leader in modernismo . He was greatly influenced by the French Parnassians . Afflicted with a painful form of tuberculosis, he wrote verse expressing deep pessimism, often choosing subjects from...
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DarÍo, RubÉn
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...diplomatic representative of various Spanish American countries. He was particularly influenced by the writings of the French Parnassians. Dario was the leader and founder of modernismo , emphasizing perfection of form, musical expression, and an ineffable...
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