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The Parnassians were a group of 19th-century French poets, so called from their journal, the Parnasse contemporain , itself named after Mount Parnassus, home of the Muses in Greek mythology. Issued from 1866 to 1876, it included poems of Charles Leconte de Lisle, Théodore de Banville, Sully-Prudhomme, Paul Verlaine, François Coppée and José María de HerediaJose Maria de Heredia ( November 22, 1842 October 3, 1905), French poet, the modern master of the French sonnet, was born at Fortuna Cafeyere, near Santiago de Cuba, being in blood part Spanish Creole and part French. At the age of eight he came from the.
The Parnassians were influenced by Théophile GautierPierre Jules Theophile Gautier ( August 31, 1811 October 23, 1872) was a well known French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist and literary critic. He was born in Tarbes in the Hautes-Pyrenees departement in the southwestern region of France, and he wen and his doctrine of art for art's sakeArt for art's sake is the usual English rendition of a French slogan, l'art pour l'art which is credited to Theophile Gautier. Whether Gautier was the first to write those words, he was the first to adopt them as a slogan. Art for art's sake" was a bohemi. In reaction to the looser forms of romantic poetry, they strove for exact and faultless workmanship, selecting exotic and classical subjects which they treated with rigidity of form and emotional detachment.
Parnassianism did not restrict itself to France, though. Perhaps the most idyosincratic of Parnassians, Olavo BilacOlavo Braz Martins dos Guimaraes Bilac ( December 16, 1865 December 28, 1918) was a Brazilian poet of the Parnassian school. Olavo Bilac Considered one of the greatest poets ever to write in Portuguese, Bilac was a master at sculpting verses with carefull was an author from BrazilThis article is about Brazil, the country. For other article subjects named Brazil see Brazil (disambiguation). The Federative Republic of Brazil Republica Federativa do Brasil in Portuguese) is the largest and most populous country in South America. that managed to carefully craft verses and metre while still keeping a strong feel of emotion to them.