For example, a non-Mormon living in Nauvoo in the 1840's claimed that polygamy is "a system which, if exposed in its naked deformity, would make the virtuous mind revolt with horror; a system in the exercise of which lays prostrate all the dearest ties in our social relations - the glo...
Symbolism originated in the revolt of certain French poets against the rigid conventions governing both technique and theme in traditional Frenchpoetry, as evidenced in the precise description ofParnassianpoetry. The Symbolists wished to liberate poetry from its expository functions and its formalized or...