Symbolist Movement

Peak of the Romantic Movement

Period: Dec 10, 1800 to Dec 10, 1840

Romanticism served as a literary rejection of the scientific rationalism created by the Enlightenment. It focused on aesthetic experience.

Charles Baudelaire's life

Period: Apr 9, 1821 to Aug 31, 1867

Paul Verlaine's life

Period: Mar 30, 1844 to Jan 8, 1896

Arthur Rimbaud's life

Period: Oct 20, 1854 to Nov 10, 1891

Charles Baudelaire publishes Les Fleurs du Mal

Dec 10, 1857

Marking the beginning of the symbolist movement

Span of Verlaine's affair with Rimbaud

Period: Dec 10, 1871 to Jul 12, 1873

Verlaine was drawn to RImbaud because of Rimbaud's poem The Drunken Boat. Their relationship was tumultuous and ended with Verlaine shooting Rimbaud in the hand

Rimbaud's Une Saison en Enfer published

Dec 10, 1873

Nikolai Minsky publishes The Ancient Debate

Dec 10, 1884

marking the beginning of the Russian Symbolist Movement, which combined mysticism and irrationalism with the conventional aspects of symbolist writing

Jean Moreas publishes the Symbolist Manifesto

Dec 10, 1886

Jean Moreas distingushes between symbolism and decandence, giving the literary movement a concrete definition.

Surrealist Movement

Period: Dec 11, 1920 to Dec 11, 1966

The paek of the surrealist movement, which focused on artistic manifestations of non sequitur and dreams