Symbolism

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  • Created on: 04-01-17 14:40
Charles Baudelaire, 1857 volume of poetry, split into 6 parts
Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil)
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Victor Hugo Quotation, quote made upon reading Baudelaire's Les Fleurs
Baudelaire has created "un nouveau frisson" (a new shudder/ thrill)
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Mallarme
A host of intellectual meetings in Paris (Les Mardistes) attended by poets including Yeats and Verlaine.
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Paul Verlaine, link to Marinetti and Woolf essays
Associated with the term 'fin de siecle' typically associated with the end of the 19th century and the turn of Modernism
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John Moreas (politics)
originally coined the term 'symbolism' in his Symbolist Manifesto (1886) to redeem the reputation of the new generation of young writes from the charge of "decadence"
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John Moreas (literature)
Published Le Pelerin Passionne which rejected Romaticism aswell as some forms of Symbolism in favour of Roman and Ancient Greek influences- Classicism
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Baudelaire has created "un nouveau frisson" (a new shudder/ thrill)

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Victor Hugo Quotation, quote made upon reading Baudelaire's Les Fleurs

Card 3

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A host of intellectual meetings in Paris (Les Mardistes) attended by poets including Yeats and Verlaine.

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Card 4

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Associated with the term 'fin de siecle' typically associated with the end of the 19th century and the turn of Modernism

Back

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Card 5

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originally coined the term 'symbolism' in his Symbolist Manifesto (1886) to redeem the reputation of the new generation of young writes from the charge of "decadence"

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