Dadaists : followers of Dadaism, a nihilistic movement in arts in Zurich, Berlin, Cologne, Hannover, Paris, & New York in early 20th century. The title was adopted at Zurich during one of the meetings held in 1916 by a group of artists & war resisters, including the poet Tristan Tzara. Dadaism was considered appropriate for their anti-aesthetic creations & protest activities, which were engendered by disgust for bourgeois values & despair over World War I. It was a doctrine of utter formlessness where meaningless words or syllables were used, as in the speech of a small child.
... on what the real aim and theory of the surrealist school may be. Obscurity and unintelligibility are not the essence of any poetry—and except for unconscious or semiconscious humorists like the Dadaists 91 —cannot be its aim or principle. True dream poetry (let us call it so for the nonce) has and must always have a meaning and a coherence. But it may very well be obscure or seem meaningless ...
... depends on what the real aim and theory of the surrealist school may be. Obscurity and unintelligibility are not the essence of any poetry—and except for unconscious or semi-conscious humorists like the Dadaists—cannot be its aim or principle. True Dream-poetry (let us call it so for the nonce) has and must always have a meaning and a coherence. But it may very well be obscure or seem meaningless to those ...
... author of Uapres-midi d'un faune. Paul Verlaine (1844-96), French lyric poet belonging to the Symbolist movement. Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91), French symbolist poet. Dadaists : Post-World War I cultural movement in visual arts and literature. Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936), English classical scholar and lyric poet; author of A Shropshire Lad, etc. ...
... Thus Mallarme was forced, by the very medium in which he worked, to produce with each poem a systematic whole of enigmatic imagery. Of course, it was because he was a true artist — unlike the Dadaists and Surrealists who came in the wake of his Symbolism — that he aimed at the significant form that goes with all Art; but Page 242 if he had not worked in French his enigmatic imagery ...
... abyss that gapes between this class of verse and the product of the high-brow coteries from whom you seceded during your literary life in England. I myself am no apologist for the various schools of dadaists, surrealists and futurists nor the intellectual contortionists and abstractionists and those who elaborately manufacture private symbols. I think it is these men you refer to in your interesting account ...
... depends on what the real aim and theory of the surrealist school may be. Obscurity and unintelligibility are not the essence of any poetry and—except for unconscious or semi-conscious humorists like the Dadaists—cannot be its aim or principle. True dream-poetry (let us call it so for the nonce) has and must always have a meaning and a coherence. But it may very well be obscure or seem meaningless to those ...
... Thus Mallarme was forced, by the very medium in which he worked, to produce with each poem a systematic whole of enigmatic imagery. ‘Of course, it was because he was a true artist - unlike the Dadaists and Surrealists who came in the wake of his Symbolism – that he aimed at the significant from that goes with all Art: …His achievement lay in making his imagery enigmatic not by a chaos of wandering ...
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