Word: symbolist
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...lone-wolf prowlings through the lower depths of Europe, his gunrunning in Africa and Asia form a vague, provoking literary legend of which even the surer facts have been concealed, exaggerated, distorted, hushed up by shocked relatives or embroidered by starry-eyed admirers of his relations with famed Symbolist Poet Paul Verlaine...
...also happens, with elaborate variations, in Beware of Pity, first full-length novel of symbolist-minded, 57-year-old Austrian Biographer Stefan Zweig (Marie Antoinette). Told to Author Zweig as the "confession" of an Austrian War hero. Captain Hofmiller, it is a pre-War tragedy which came from Hofmiller's pity for beautiful, crippled Edith von Kekesfalva, daughter of an Austrian pseudo nobleman. Invited for the first time to the Kekesfalvas' big country estate, naïve young Hofmiller, un aware that Edith's fur robe covers withered legs, asks her to dance. She bursts into sobs...
Died. William Butler Yeats, 73, great Irish poet; of heart disease; in Roquebrune, France. A symbolist poet known to few in his youth, a leader of the Irish literary renaissance and a founder of the Abbey Theatre in his early maturity, an Irish nationalist in his middle years, Yeats also became a Nobel prizewinner (1923), a Free State Senator, and was widely accepted, in his old age, as a world figure whose poetry and prose could be measured with the greatest produced in his time. His art meanwhile changed from the youthful rhythms of The Lake Isle of Innisfree, which...
...whose modernistic practice is currently labeled "functionalism." The same label can be applied to the literary practice of certain contemporary poets whose poems, like "functionalist" buildings, are constructed with a marked weather eye on the modern living conditions they are meant to reflect or relieve. As distinct from the Symbolist, Surrealist, Imagist or Metaphysical poets, who seem to borrow from Music, Psychology, Painting and Mathematical Physics their respective poetic first principles, these poets seem to borrow theirs from the demotic art of Architecture. Most dazzling of the lot, yet slyest, is W. H. Auden; sincerest and slickest, Stephen Spender; most...
...very red dye. Hating the emotionalism of Wagner and other romantic composers, he created a musical language of his own, painted tone-pictures of impressions from nature, conceived a whole new palette of instrumental and harmonic colors. Critics, fond of loose similes, called him a symbolist like Poets Mallarme and Verlaine; others called him an impressionist like Painters Renoir and Monet. The latter title stuck. His work-fastidious, poetic, voluptuous and all but perfection in technique-had an immense influence on the composers of the early nineteen hundreds. Besides a picture of an incurable Bohemian, Biographer Thompson offers a systematic...