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Symbolist

noun

A member of an artistic movement that expressed ideas indirectly via symbols.

Someone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbols. Synonyms: symboliser, symbolizer.

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... 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

Words linked to "Symbolist" : translator, artist, symbolizer, creative person, symbolism, interpreter, symboliser