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Parnassiens, Les

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Parnassiens, Les

School of French poets which flourished 1866–76, including Leconte de Lisle, Heredia, Sully-Prudhomme, François-Edouard Coppée, Léon Dierx, Louis Menard, and Albert Merat. It was named after Le Parnasse contemporain, a periodical devoted to poetry, and advocated ‘art for art's sake’ in opposition to the ideas of the Romantics.

The Parnassians were much influenced by the scientific and philosophical climate of their times, in particular by scientific positivism. Their aim was to create poetry that was impersonal and intellectual in tone, not subjective and sentimental, and impeccable in form.



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