PHILOSOPHICAL AND POETIC THOUGHT OF RUSSIAN SYMBOLISM.

The philosophical-poetical thought of Russian Symbolism is Russian art''s process of reflection about itself - thought, dissolved into the myriad forms of art itself. This thought which informs all art is like dissolved salt except that this solute c
annot be isolated from the solution. Without that water in which this salt is suspended, it simply does not exist. Hence the volume of this work - no sort of theoretical proof could exist without the citation of many lines of verse and philosophy. Ar
t itself is called upon as the chief witness. It is in the forms of art itself that creative tendencies encounter other quests, discoveries, and kindred mistakes. This book is a diagnosis of the theoretical definition of this sort of relationship.