The symbolist Movement in Literature.
"Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck"
Jethro Bithell
Soon realism, under the influence of Dickens and Balzac, installed itself as master of this literature, and, in spite of the repeated efforts of the symbolist schools, nothing has yet been able to wipe it out.
"Contemporary Russian Novelists"
Serge Persky
"That's it, that's it," hastily exclaimed Camille, who, though she harshly derided the symbolist painters as a rule, now doubtless desired to delay her mother.
"Paris From the "Three Cities""
Emile Zola