... been more imitated or rejected for entirely non-poetic reasons. The great symbolist poetry deals with the oscillation between form and its destruction, between chaos and its rebirth into shape. Baudelaire Charles Rimbaud Arthur Bataille Georges Blanchot Maurice Gracq Julien Michaux Henri Ponge...

... influences Koussevitzky Serge Alexandrovich “To Koussevitzky Celebrating Russian Music in Paris” Balmont “Amerika” Balmont “Flight” Balmont “On the Steps” Balmont Prokofiev sonnets Balmont “The Third Piano Concerto” Balmont “The Violinist” Balmont Russian Silver Age Russian Symbolist poetry...

... symbolist poetry Aside from the innocuous sonnet ‘My Lady April’, Ernest Dowson selected only poems written after his first encounter with Adelaide Foltinowicz for inclusion in Verses (1896). His intention to dedicate the book to her required this editorial scruple. He deemed Foltinowicz...

..., focusing on claims that symbolist poetry was difficult. Difficulty was almost invariably treated as an undesirable attribute in a poem, and describing a poem as hard to read was, in Japanese as in English, never intended as a compliment. The chapter also seeks to answer the following questions: What made...

... Teixeira de Mattos Alexander aesthetic poetry Commedia dell’arte Decadent drama John Evelyn Barlas phantasy Pierrot The Rhymers’ Club symbolist poetry Walter Pater William Theodore Peters Dowson’s Catholic conversion polarized his writing. Its centripetal tendencies are apparent from the stark...