Word: sonnets
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Regnier then commented briefly on the work of each of these men, laying considerable stress on the place of the sonnet. In the early eighties followed the reaction of idealism against realism. The new movement was headed by Paul Verlaine, Mallarme, and others. With them slowly arose the new school of poets called "decadents" or symbolists...
...best contribution to the current number of the Advocate is an anonymous sonnet on Great Britain's recent reverses in South Africa. It is one of the pieces of verse seen once in a while in the Advocate which will stand second reading...