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 cannot 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. Art 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.