*French school of Symbolistes:
known in English as Symbolists; a literary movement, inspired by the work of Baudelaire, headed by a group of French poets, such as Jules Laforgue (1860-87), Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91), and Paul Valéry (1871-1945). The Symbolists aimed at producing poems that represented correspondences between the senses by emphasizing colour, harmony, and tone.(107p. ch.11) - P211
The style in which it was written was that curious jewelled style, vivid and obscure at once, full of argot* and of archaisms, of technical expressions and of elaborate paraphrases, that characterizes the work of some of the finest artists of the French school of Symbolistes.*
There were in it metaphors as monstrous as orchids,*and as subtle in colour. The life of the senses was described in the terms of mystical philosophy. One hardly knew at times whether one was reading the spiritual ecstasies of some medieval saint or the morbid confessions of a modern sinner. It was a poisonous book.(107p. ch.11) - P107
There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make us almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie.
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