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See also:JEAN See also:MOREAS (1856-1910)
, See also:French poet, See also:born at See also:Athens on the 15th of See also:April 1856, was the See also:grandson of Papadiomontopoulos, one of the heroes of See also:Missolonghi
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He was one of the leaders of the symbolist See also:movement in French See also:poetry, advocating a relaxation of the stringent rules governing French See also:verse; but his See also:early volumes of poems, See also:Les Syrles (1884), Les Cantile nes (1886), and Le Pelerin passionne (1891) won recognition beyond the limits of this school
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In the XIX° siecle (See also:August rr,1885) he formulated the principles of the symbolists, defending them from the appellation of " decadent," and in the See also:literary supplement of the See also:Figaro (Sep 18, 1886) he published a manifesto justifying the innovations of the new school as the natural development of the See also:prosody of See also:Baudelaire, See also:Mallarme and See also:Verlaine
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Le Merin passionne was sympathetically reviewed by Anatole See also:France
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As See also:time went on he repudiated the See also:licence claimed by the symbolists, and became the See also:leader of an offshoot from the See also:main See also:body known as the'etole romane, the See also:chief members of which are See also:Raymond de la Tailhede, See also:Maurice du Plessys, Ernest Raynaud, and the critic See also: " Symbolisme " in La Grande encyclopidie; and J. de Gourmont, Jean Moreas, biographie critique (1905) . |
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