The Symbolist Movement in Literature - Paperback

by Arthur Symons (Author), Symons Arthur Symons (Author), Arthur Symons (Author)

Without symbolism there can be no literature; indeed, not even language. What are words themselves but symbols, almost as arbitrary as the letters which compose them, mere sounds of the voice to which we have agreed to give certain significations, as we have agreed to translate these sounds by those combinations of letters?