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symbolists
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...symbolists, in literature, a school originating...extended to the other arts. The early symbolists experimented with form, revolting against...in music by Debussy. Among the later symbolists were Claudel, Valéry, Jammes, and......
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Rimbaud, Arthur
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......1854–91, French poet who had a great influence on the symbolists and subsequent modern poets, b. Charleville. A defiant...reality but of his dreamworld; his technique anticipates the symbolists in its suggestiveness, its abstract verbal music, and its......
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Verlaine, Paul
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......1874), which shows Verlaine as one of the first of the symbolists. The sensitive appreciation of the common incidents and...importance is Les Poètes maudits (1884), sketches of his fellow symbolists, particularly Mallarmé and Rimbaud....
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Balmont, Konstantin Dmitrieyevich
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......died destitute and forgotten. Although his early verse was revolutionary in content, after 1894 it revealed the influence of the symbolists. His travels all over the world supplied exotic details for his poems. He translated Shelley, Ibsen, Poe, Calderón, and......
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Brazilian literature
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......of these works was even evident in the modernismo movement. It began in Brazil as a poetic movement influenced by French symbolists and led by Mário de Andrade, whose prose work Macunaíma (1928, tr. 1984) made pioneer use of the vernacular; the movement......
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Claudel, Paul
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......inner spirit, and reveal the influence of his profound and mystical Catholicism. His early plays were inspired by the French symbolists, notably by Rimbaud. Perhaps his finest play is L'Annonce faite à Marie (1912, tr. Tidings Brought to Mary, 1916......
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decadents
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......flamboyant French poets, who in 1886 published the journal Le Décadent. The decadents venerated Baudelaire and the French symbolists, the group with whom they are often mistakenly identified. In England the decadent movement was represented in the 1890s......
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González Martínez, Enrique
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......poetry, written during the 17 years of his medical practice, showed the influence of the modernist Rubén Darío and the French symbolists. In 1911 he rejected the artificial aestheticism of modernismo in his poem Los senderos ocultos [hidden paths], beginning with......
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Herrera y Reissig, Julio
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......modernismo. The obscurity and preciosity of his verses and their fantastic, extravagant imagery show the influence of Luis de Góngora and of the French symbolists. His Obras completas (1911–13) was published posthumously....
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Eliot, T. S.
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......19th-century poetic traditions. Their models were the metaphysical poets, Dante, the Jacobean dramatists, and French symbolists. Their meter ranged from the lyrical to the conversational. In his later poetry, notably Ash Wednesday (1930) and the......