"Symbolistical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... nephew Eric Till just before the War Was steeped in esoteric And antinomian lore, Now verging on the mystic, Now darkly symbolistic, Now frankly Futuristic, And modern to ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 7, 1916 • Various
... force than Platen, yet he lacked the incisive and controlled critical sense of the latter. Having no one faculty to a distinguished degree, he constantly had to substitute the strained labor of one faculty for the spontaneous production of another. Predominantly rationalistic, he labored at the symbolistic vision of Romanticism; preeminently a man of prose, he endeavored all his life to be a great poet. He mistook the responsive excitement produced by the ideas and visions of others for authentic inspiration, ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VII. • Various |
