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"What modern man wants," said the French symbolist poet Paul Valéry, "is the grin without the cat, the sensation without the boredom of its conveyance."
Under his military exterior he was a pure aesthete, a devotee of esoteric literature and musty medieval romanticism, a kind of tactical symbolist.
George, who lived from 1868 to 1933, is ranked high among German lyric poets for his elegant Symbolist visions.
His was, as he saw it, a continuous poetic journey, aided here and there by slaves or muses--Arthur Symons, the symbolist who introduced him to the poetry of Paul Verlaine and Stéphane Mallarmé in the 1890s; Maud Gonne, who made Irish nationalism romantic; Lady Augusta Gregory, an Irish Protestant aristocrat who collaborated with Yeats in his search of old Irish folklore and legends; and Ezra Pound, who stiffened Yeats' soft "Celtic" verse with a little modernist geometry.
And, given the violently mixed reaction to the National Gallery exhibition (Michael Kimmelman writing in the New York Times , "I think, from the show, that if he had died in 1906, before Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, he would be remembered as a second tier Symbolist."