The Symbolist Movement in Literature
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, British, Essays & Letters, Essays
| Author: | Arthur Symons | ISBN: | 9789388760386 |
| Publisher: | GENERAL PRESS | Publication: | February 14, 2019 |
| Imprint: | GENERAL PRESS | Language: | English |
| Author: | Arthur Symons |
| ISBN: | 9789388760386 |
| Publisher: | GENERAL PRESS |
| Publication: | February 14, 2019 |
| Imprint: | GENERAL PRESS |
| Language: | English |
The Symbolist Movement in Literature is a highly influential work of criticism and served to introduce the French Symbolists to an Anglophone readership. This work had a formative influence on modernist writers such as Joyce, Eliot, Pound and Yeats, helping to shape the role of the Image in modernist writing.
Without symbolism there can be no literature; indeed, not even language. Symbolism in literature really is a form of expression, at the best but approximate, essentially but arbitrary, until it has obtained the force of a convention, for an unseen reality apprehended by the consciousness.
The Symbolist Movement in Literature is a highly influential work of criticism and served to introduce the French Symbolists to an Anglophone readership. This work had a formative influence on modernist writers such as Joyce, Eliot, Pound and Yeats, helping to shape the role of the Image in modernist writing.
Without symbolism there can be no literature; indeed, not even language. Symbolism in literature really is a form of expression, at the best but approximate, essentially but arbitrary, until it has obtained the force of a convention, for an unseen reality apprehended by the consciousness.
