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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."
Then, he experimented with different ways to fill that grid: pointillist colored dots, blobs of papier-mâché, fingerprints and, finally, the colorful Symbolist doodles he now favors.
Under his military exterior he was a pure aesthete, a devotee of esoteric literature and musty medieval romanticism, a kind of tactical symbolist.
"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."