Paul Verlaine with Verlaine, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, Paul Valéry, Albert Samain and many others began to be referred to as "Symbolists." These poets would often share themes that parallel Schopenhauer's aesthetics and notions of will, fatality and unconscious forces, and used themes of sex (such as prostitutes), the city, irrational phenomena (delirium, dreams, narcotics, alcohol), and sometimes a vaguely medieval setting. In poetry, the symbolist procedure—as typified by Verlaine—was to use subtle suggestion instead of precise statement (rhetoric was banned) and to evoke moods and feelings through the magic of words and repeated sounds and the cadence of verse (musicality) and metrical innovation.
John Holloway (poet) John Holloway (poet) John Holloway (1 August 1920 – 29 August 1999) was an English poet, critic and academic. Born in Croydon, South London and educated at the County School at Beckenham in Kent and the University of Oxford (New College), he served in the Royal Artillery and Intelligence during the Second World War and then pursued an academic career. He was a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford from 1946–60 and of Queens' College, Cambridge from 1955–82, becoming a Life Fellow on his retirement. He held a post as Lecturer in English at Aberdeen University (1949–54), and then moved