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Symbolist

noun
1.
A member of an artistic movement that expressed ideas indirectly via symbols.
2.
Someone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbols.  Synonyms: symboliser, symbolizer.





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"Symbolist" Quotes from Famous Books



... Browning was a literary artist—that is to say, he was a symbolist. The wealth of Browning's poetry depends on arrangement of language. It is so with all great literature: it is not so much what is said as how it is said, in what way the sentences are formed so that the climax comes in the ...
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Patrick Braybrooke
... charm of the sense-apprehended, that life for him became life. Rodney attained to his real by looking through the manifold veils of the phenomenal, as through so much glass; Peter to his by an adoring delight in their complex loveliness. He was not a symbolist; he had no love of mystic hints and mist-veiled ...
— The Lee Shore • Rose Macaulay


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