Symbolist Manifesto

The Symbolist Manifesto (French: Le Symbolisme) is a French work published in 1886 in France by the Greek poet and essayist Jean Moréas. It defines and characterizes Symbolism as a style whose "goal was not the ideal, but whose sole purpose was to express itself for the sake of being expressed." It names Charles Baudelaire, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Paul Valéry as the three leading poets of the movement.