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Symbolist

noun

A member of an artistic movement that expressed ideas indirectly via symbols.

Someone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbols. Synonyms: symboliser, symbolizer.

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... generation has fared so ill at the hands of the critics. Already the Browning library is large. Some of the criticism is good; much of it, regarding the author as philosopher and symbolist, is totally askew. Reams have been written in interpretation of Childe Roland, an imaginative fantasy composed in one day. Abstruse ideas have been wrested from the simple story of My Last Duchess. His poetry has been the stamping-ground ...

— Browning's Shorter Poems • Robert Browning

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Words linked to "Symbolist" : creative person, interpreter, translator, artist, symbolism