Symbolism

[Ben Jackson]

Symbolism is a 19th Century artistic and literary movement in France and and Belgium which represent absolute truth symbolically through language and metaphorical images inspired by spirituality, dreams and imagination. Influences include Emmanuel Swedenborg and William Blake.

Key Works:

?? Bruges La Morte--- Georges Rodenbach, The Blind, Interior, Intruder, Blue Bird--- Maurice Maeterlinck
Poems--- Baudelaire, Jules La Forgue, Rimbaud, Mallarme, Tristan Corbiere, Gerard de Nerval, Comte Lautreamont, Gustave Khan (France)
?? Salome, Picture of Dorian Gray--- Oscar Wilde, Poems--- W B Yeats
Against Nature--- Joris Karl Huysman
?? Poems--- Blok, Konstantin Balmont, Fyodor Sologub
?? Poems--- Swinburne, TS Eilot, Arthur Symons

And so many other to mention.

 

[Benny Profane]

?? Poems: Cruz e Sousa, Maranhão Sobrinho, Pedro Kilkerry, Alphonsus de Guimaraens, Augusto dos Anjos, etc;
?? Prose: Rocha Pombo - No Hospício [At The Madhouse]; Gonzaga Duque - Mocidade Morta [Dead Youth] and Pardal Mallet - Lar [Home]

 

[Corswandt]

?? Clepsidra by Camilo Pessanha. Nowadays always packaged in a single slim volume including his entire poetic output.

?? Eugénio de Castro. Widely translated in his own lifetime but nowadays pretty much forgotten (like Ferreira de Castro, but worse).

 

[Benny Profane]

?? Clepsidra by Camilo Pessanha. Nowadays always packaged in a single slim volume including his entire poetic output.

The great Pessanha!!!