symbolisme

The term symbolisme as a designation of a group of poets was first proposed by Jean Moréas (pseudonym for Jean Diamantopoulos, 1856-1910).

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The movement officially promulgated by Jean Moréas in his "Manifeste du symbolisme" of 1886 is best understood as a vague composite of moods and formal preoccupations that pervaded the music and art of that era, no less than its poetry and prose.

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On the French movement: André Barre, Le symbolisme: essai historique (Paris, 1911).

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On September 14, 1891, in another number of Figaro Moréas blandly announced that symbolisme was dead.

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E. Raynaud, La mêlée poétique du symbolisme, 3 vols.

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Taupin, L'influence du symbolisme français sur la poésie américaine de 1910 à 1920 (Paris, 1929).

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Thus symbolisme was only an ephemeral name for a very small clique of French poets.

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André Barre's Le symbolisme (1911) and particularly

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L'influence du symbolisme français dans le renouveau poétique de l'Allemagne (Paris, 1933).

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L'influence du symbolisme français sur la poésie américaine (1929) traced some echoes in forgotten

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