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

The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)
Man and His Symbols
The Book of Symbols: Reflections on Archetypal Images
Les Fleurs du Mal
Lord of the Flies
The Scarlet Letter
The Language of Creation: Cosmic Symbolism in Genesis
The Hero With a Thousand Faces
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
Bruges-La-Morte
The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols
The Great Gatsby
The Catcher in the Rye
Animal Farm
Symbols of Sacred Science
Criss Jami
From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.
Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

Melissa de la Cruz
Black is the color of night. White is the true color of death
Melissa de la Cruz, Blue Bloods

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