Symbolism

Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts. In literature, the style had its beginnings with the publication Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil, 1857) by Charles Baudelaire. The works of Edgar Allan Poe, which Baudelaire admired greatly and translated into French, were a significant influence and the source of many stock tropes and images. The aesthetic was developed by Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Verlaine during the 1860s and '70s. In the 1880s, the aesthetic was articulated by a series of manifestos and attracted a g ...more

Man and His Symbols
The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)
The Book of Symbols: Reflections on Archetypal Images
Les Fleurs du Mal
The Language of Creation: Cosmic Symbolism in Genesis
Lord of the Flies
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
The Scarlet Letter
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
Symbols of Sacred Science
Animal Farm
Bruges-La-Morte
Petersburg
The Great Gatsby
The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols
Mallarmé in Prose by Stéphane MallarméSelected Poems by Stéphane MallarméUnlocking Mallarmé by Graham RobbMallarmé by Rosemary LloydPoésies by Stéphane Mallarmé
Mallarme
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Mythpunk Books
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Cymbalic Paradiddling
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Cassandra Clare
White for Shadowhunters is the color of funerals," Luke explained. “ But for mundanes, Jace, it’ s the color of weddings. Brides wear white to symbolize their purity.” “I thought Jocelyn said her dress wasn’t white,” Simon said. “Well,” said Jace, “I suppose that ship has sailed.” Luke choked on his coffee. ...more
Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Sphinx must solve her own riddle.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays

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