Parnassian
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- noun
- /pɑrˈnæs.i.ən/
- Literature
- His later achievement is surely on par with, say, the best of the French Parnassians of the nineteenth century.
Examples
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This fundamental tenet of Parnassian poetics—that end rhyme has its own ends, that the poem is also a poet—clearly parallels Swinburne's poetics.
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The Parnassian poets were celebrated for their emphasis on form and structure in their works.
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"Thus for us, the romantic, Parnassian, naturalist, symbolist arts became successively classical.
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Swinburne's theorizing of rhyme as not only the end of the line but also its means was imported from Parnassian poetics.
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Parnassian, or Apollo, butterflies use it as their host plant—the one on which the female lays her eggs and on which the larvae feed.
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If Gerard Manley Hopkins, a greater poet who was all calling and no career, had come back from the future and accused him of being one of the founders of the deadly Parnassian measures, whose default mode was an easy smoothness, Daniel would have known how to defend himself.
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In 1852, the Parnassian poet Leconte de Lisle, for instance, published his Poèmes antiques, which contain numerous references to Indian deities.
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Valuing art over chance and the poet's intentions over unintentional effects were fundamental aesthetic hierarchies for many English Parnassians, whose regard for rhyme emerged from a more fundamental endorsement of art and technique.
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"All those guys—realists, naturalists, parnassians, decadents, the whole boatload—devoutly believed that the accumulation of visual detail plus mysterious intuition gives direct access to deep reality.
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Many admire the Parnassian approach for its focus on precision and emotional restraint in poetry.
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Etymology
Parnassian was used for a poet in a 19th-century French group who named themselves after Mount Parnassus and the Muses because they wanted perfect form and calm emotion in their poems. So a modern Parnassian is a poet who values strict technique and emotional restraint.