Symbolism (arts)

Symbolism was a late nineteenth century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts.

Symbolists

Some precursors to Symbolism

• Charles Baudelaire (1821-67)
• Isidore Ducasse, Comte de Lautréamont (1846-70)
• Gérard de Nerval (1808-55)

Symbolist authors

• Mathias Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (1838-89)
• Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-98)
• Paul Verlaine (1844-96)
• Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91)
• Georges Rodenbach (1855-98)
• Emile Verhaeren (1855-1916)
• Jean Moréas (1856-1910)
• Albert Samain (1858-1900)
• Rémy de Gourmont (1858-1915)
• Gustave Kahn (1859-1936)
• Albert Giraud (1860-1929)
• Jules Laforgue (1860-87)
• Paul Adam (1862-1920)
• Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949)
• Stuart Merrill (1863-1915)
• Adolphe Retté (1863-1930)
• Francis Vielé-Griffin (1863-1937)
• Henri de Régnier (1864-1936)
• Albert Mockel (1866-1945)
• Paul Valéry (1871-1945)
• Renée Vivien (1877-1909)
• Emile Nelligan (1879-1941)

Symbolist influence in English literature

English language authors that influenced, or were influenced by Symbolism include:

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• Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49)
• William Blake (1757-1827)
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82)
• Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
• Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
• Arthur Symons (1865-1945)
• John Gray (1866-1934)
• Ernest Dowson (1867-1900)
• Eric Stenbock (1860-95)
• T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
• William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
• Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
• Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
• Conrad Aiken (1889-1973)
• Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961)

See also: Symbolist painters

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