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French Symbolist Poetry, Bilingual edition (CAL 21) by Carlyle Ferren, 1890-1967, tr MacIntyre is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>Any attempt to define the Symbolist movement and its influence inevitably loses itself in a welter of detail. One can say that these late nineteenth-century French poets were revolting against fixed forms and inert molds; that they were attempting to express an inner ideal reality rather than the objective world; that they deliberately blurred sense impressions and sought correspondences where none had been observed before; that they have had a profound influence on contemporary avant-garde writing, noticeably in Hart Crane, Ezra Pound, and T.S. Eliot. But in the end one has not said a great deal.<br> Whether viewed as influence or in and for themselves, the Symbolist are a tantalizing group. Paralleling similar movements in art and music, their intensely personal poetry leans more heavily on oblique suggestions and evocation than on overt statement. It sets its perceptions, intuitive and nonrational, squarely against intellectual and scientific thinking—and this with a music that is flexible, intrepid, and subtle, sometimes even dissonant and jazzy. But the poetry itself is the movements best definition.<br> Here in bilingual form, together with an introduction and illuminating
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- Author
- Carlyle Ferren, 1890-1967, tr MacIntyre
- Publisher
- Berkeley, University of California Press
- Published
- 1966
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780520007840
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Romance, Poetry
- Rating
- 3.91 / 5 (37 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14