Parnassism

Noun

Parnassianism (uncountable)

1. A French literary style which began during the positivist period of the 19th century.
   • The leading poets of Parnassianism, like Machado, were utterly respectable and middle classs, good family men; many were bureaucrats, and they were proud that they had freed poets from "the obligation to wear their hair long" (Bilac, in Broca, 1960:7). Symbolism was enormously influential in almost...1983, David T. Haberly, Three Sad Races: Racial Identity and National Consciousness in Brazilian Literature, Cambridge University Press, page 100