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Symbolist Movement: Poets
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The 1890s ended with two works of importance for Symbolism, The Wind among the Reeds, and Arthur Symons's influential Symbolist Movement in Literature. Yeats’s volume, which includes copious notes, marks a significant transition in his poetical transition from decadence to sceptical maturity, and marks a high point in his mystical and Celtic preoccupations. Symons’s prose helps to make sense of what are often strange and obscure poems, pointing to ways in which they should be read.
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After his eight months' stay in Paris in 1897, when he first encountered the symbolist movement, he often mentioned the artists Gustave Moreau, Puvis de Chavannes and Edward Bume-Jones. He subscribed to the magazine Art et Décoration, and several of his friends were symbolist writers; among these were the poets Marcel Dugas and Guy Delahaye and the writer Robert de Roquebrune, who gave a lecture on symbolism in Montreal in 1918.
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Academics tidy the bewildering variety of literary composition [I]nto themes and movements, and no doubt college students study Symbolist literature as a precursor of Modernism. But Symbolism shaped the contemporary consciousness, and is far from dead. There exist contemporary schools of Symbolists, both in literature and painting. The wider concerns of the Symbolists – alienation from big business and materialism, the Cartesian split between mind and body, the biological association of thought and feeling – are not only pursued by contemporary writers and poets but by scientists and philosophers.
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