Parnassian

parnassian English Etymology From en Parnassus, from en la Parnassus, from en grc Παρνασσός. Adjective Of or relating to Parnassus, as the source of literary (especially poetic) inspiration; (hence) of or belonging to poetry. en poetic en 1565 1567 w:Arthur Golding w:Publius Ovidius Naso The Fyrst Fower Bookes of P. Ovidius Nasos Worke, Entitled Metamorphosis, Translated Oute of Latin into Englishe Meter w:Metamorphoses W. Seres London King Atlas called straight to minde an auncient prophesie Made by Parnassian Themys, which this sentence did implie: The time shall one day, Atlas, come in which thy golden tree Shall of hir fayre and precious fruite dispoyld and robbed bee. en 1771 1886 w:Henry Mackenzie The Man of Feeling Cassell London 119 There is a certain poetic ground, on which a man cannot tread without feelings that enlarge the heart: the causes of human depravity vanish before the romantic enthusiasm he professes, and many who are not able to reach the Parnassian heights, may yet approach so near as to be bettered by the air of the climate. en 4 Feb 91 18 28 Gay Community News 16 Owen Shows Start Making Sense The bohemian lifestyle, which had existed in Western societies since the early nineteenth century, suddenly ceased to be the domain of an artistic minority and developed into a mass "counterculture" bent on shocking the bourgeoisie. This counterculture arrived ready-made, with its [illegible] and sex, its long hair and eccentricities, the product of two centuries of slow maturation in Parnassian garrets. en poetry from Gerard Manley Hopkins' writings Of or relating to a style of poetry or language which can only be created by poets, but not in the language of inspiration. en 1864 1954 w:Gerard Manley Hopkins Poems and prose http://books.google.com/books?ei=ZvWxUaSBDZSh4AOj3IHgAQ&id=EKZZAAAAYAAJ&dq=Parnassian+way&q=%22Parnassian+way%22#search_anchor Penguin Books 157 at last, — this is the point to be marked, - they can see things in this Parnassian way and describe them in this Parnassian tongue, without further effort of inspiration. en 1864 1954 w:Gerard Manley Hopkins Poems and prose http://books.google.com/books?ei=ZvWxUaSBDZSh4AOj3IHgAQ&id=EKZZAAAAYAAJ&dq=Parnassian+pieces&q=%22Parnassian+pieces%22#search_anchor Penguin Books 158 But in Parnassian pieces you feel that if you were the poet you could have gone on as he has done, you see yourself doing it, only with the difference that if you actually try you find you cannot write his Parnassian. en 1989 w:Christopher Bruce Ricks Tennyson http://books.google.com/books?id=t4VeZpepqO0C&pg=PA212 0520067843 212 'Behold', 'dream a dream', 'mingle': these here have something of the plangent tremulousness which comes when Tennyson is writing 'Parnassian' verse. en c. 2002 Émile J. Talbot Reading Nelligan http://books.google.com/books?id=YanFis3nPwwC&pg=PA166 0773523189 McGill-Queen's University Press 166 One might be tempted to read this conjoining of exoticism and sensuality as a Parnassian exercise, until one reads the rest of the poem: en literature historical Of or relating to the Parnassianism movement of French poetry in the years 1850 to 1900, whose adherents rejected Romanticism and instead favored classicism with its formal structure and emotional detachment. en 1895 w:Max Simon Nordau Degeneration http://books.google.com/books?id=LOWr5TsEaPUC&pg=PA270 Entartung D. Appleton and Company New York 270 The Parnassian theory of art is mere imbecility. Derived terms en Parnassianism Noun en rare A poet. A French poet of the Parnassianism movement. en Swallowtails en terms derived from toponyms