Word: symbolist
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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...
After a few preliminary remarks concerning the place, origin and history of the symbolist movement, M. de Regnier considered the principal schools of poetry which preceded the "decadent" school, sketching briefly the history of French poetry from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the nineteenth century, when the romanticist movement made itself felt...
...will not be Le Village, as announced, but Le mariage sumbolique, by Emile Bergerat, and Le Pater by F. Coppee. The latter play was interdicted, for political reasons, on the eve of its performance at the Theatre Francais: the former is an amusing satire on the fads of the Symbolist School...
...possible to reproduce in language the effects commonly supposed to belong to the Fine Arts? [See the writings of Verlaine, Maeterlinck and the Symbolist School in France...