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 Book of Symbols: Reflections on Archetypal Images
The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)
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)
The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols
The Great Gatsby
Animal Farm
Bruges-La-Morte
Symbols of Sacred Science
The Secret Teachings of All Ages
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No symbols where none intended.
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