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Literary Movement - Key Belief - Some Key Followers
aestheticism art for art’s sake Poe, Emerson, Keats beat generation alienation from society; spiritual quest Kerouac, Ginsberg Bloomsbury group appreciation of art as the rational goal of human action Woolf, Forster expressionism expression of the inner self Strindberg, Brecht imagism precision of description Pound, Williams, Lawrence impressionism accurate rendition of personal experience Mann, Proust, Wilde naturalism objective view of reality Zola, Hardy, Dreiser neoclassicism form over content Racine, Swift, Dryden realism portrayal of life as it is Ibsen, Flaubert, James romanticism belief in the goodness of people in their Wordsworth, Keats natural state Shelley, Byron, Cooper, Thoreau, Longfellow surrealism search for a reality beyond surface reality Cummings, Thomas symbolism meaning conveyed through patterns of images Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine transcendentalism divine nature of the individual; natural phenomena reveal spiritual truth Emerson, Thoreau
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