Parnassian definitions

Parnassian

1) Poet
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Parnassian

poetic
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Parnassian

• (n.) One of a school of French poets of the Second Empire (1852-70) who emphasized metrical form and made the little use of emotion as poetic material; -- so called from the name (Parnasse contemporain) of the volume in which their first poems were collected in 1866. • (n.) Any one of numerous species of butterflies belonging to the gen...
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Parnassian

member of a group—headed by Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle—of 19th-century French poets who stressed restraint, objectivity, technical ... [5 related articles]
Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/p/21

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Parnassian

Par·nas'sian adjective [ Latin Parnassius .] Of or pertaining to Parnassus.
Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/P/25

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Parnassian

Term coined by G.M.Hopkins to describe competent but uninspired poetry.
Found on http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/glossary_of_poetic_terms.htm

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