Word: symbolist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taken seriously. That is his cardinal principle. His play is none of these "-isms"--or all of them, as you wish. You can take them or leave them. We need not then be too much alarmed when Professor Leo Wiener bids us to make no truce with this "symbolist Salomeist harliquin-theatrical Evreinov", the "jumping-jack" that talks like a man. Nor need we be too much bewildered when his biographer, Kamienski, tells us. "Evreinov is a blood race horse of the Steppes unexpectedly tangoing with cows...
Seventy poets followed the Symbolist in rotation. Whenever one attempted to spout his third poem he was immediately howled down. In this way it was possible to end the meeting in a single "Evening...
...Evening" started by a white-haired, grey-bearded professor giving a dissertation on Sologub. Then up jumped a poet symbolist; told how much better he was than Sologub, recited one, two, three, four of his poems; started to recite the fifth, but the audience had had enough. Shrieks shrill and roars raucous rent the atmosphere-the poet sadly sat down...