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• started with a group of French poets in the late 18th century and continued till the late 19th century

• The entire Symbolist artist individually expressed experience through the subtle, also used very high symbolized language.

• It was based on ideas shared between both artists and literary figures; a rejection of Realism and Naturalism.

• Unlike their preceding generation they saw art as being unclear, and mysterious, and instead of looking outward into the world for their subject matter, it came from their emotions, dreams, and spirit.

• Symbolism was the rejection on the normal and the techniques used at the time, this all led to the development of the vers libre (free verse)  

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• The principal Symbolist poets consisted of seven Frenchmen, Stephane Mallarme, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Jules Laforgue, Henri de Regnie

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• Gustave Kahn

• Born December 21, 1859 France

• Died September 5, 1936 Paris

• French poet and literary theorist who claimed to be the original inventor of vers libre (free verse).

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• Stephane Mallarme

• Born March 18, 1842, Paris

• Died Sep 9, 1898, Valvins

• A French Poet and original leader of the Symbolism Movement in Poetry.

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