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Parnassian, a. and n.|pɑːˈnæsɪən|
Also 7 Parnassean, Pernassian.
[f. L. Parnās(s)i-us, -ē-us (f. Parnāsus, Parnassus) + -an. Cf. F. Parnassien.]
A. adj.
1. a. Of or belonging to Parnassus; of or belonging to poetry, poetic.
a1644Quarles Sol. Recant. Sol. xi. 49 Hadst thou what strength the Parnassean Muse Can blesse thy fancy with. 1734Pope Ess. Man iv. 11 Twin'd with the wreaths Parnassian laurels yield. 1875E. C. Stedman Victorian Poets (1876) 272 Its composer holds a place in the Parnassian hemicycle as legitimate as that of Robin Goodfellow in Oberon's court. 1884Harper's Mag. Feb. 335/1 What Parnassian flowerets have strewn its course.
b. spec. Epithet of a school of French poetry of the latter half of the 19th c., from the title Parnasse contemporain of a collection of their poems published in 1866; also transf. Cf. B. 1 b.
1902E. Gosse in Daily Chron. 20 May 3/1 This school was that of the Parnassian poets, who ruled French verse from about 1850 to 1890. 1902― in Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 256/1 The name of the ‘Parnassian School’ has been given to a group of poets who belonged to the generation succeeding that of the Rossettis and Wm. Morris.
c. Of or pertaining to sense B. 1 c.
2. Entom. Belonging to the genus Parnassius of butterflies, found in mountainous regions of the northern hemisphere.
B. n.
1. a. A poet: cf. A. 1.
1659Elegy on Cleveland 49 C.'s Wks. (1687) 278 Such was this pure Pernassian, whose clear Nature To gain a World could never brook to flatter. 1899Q. Rev. July 90 There are two souls in these Parnassians.
b. spec. A French poet of the Parnassian school.
1882J. Claretie in Athenæum 9 Dec. 774/2 He does not speak the tortured language of the Parnassians, but the free and clear langage gaulois of Mathurin Régnier. 1893Nation (N.Y.) 9 Feb. 101/2 Leconte de Lisle..is the head of the Parnassians.
c. spec. In the writings of G. M. Hopkins, a second kind of poetry, which can only be written by poets but which is not the language of inspiration.
1864G. M. Hopkins Let. 10 Sept. (1956) 216 Parnassian then is that language which genius speaks as fitted to its exaltation, and place among other genius, but does not sing..in its flights. Great men, poets I mean, have each their own dialect as it were of Parnassian, formed generally as they go on writing, and at last,—this is the point to be marked,—they can see things in this Parnassian way and describe them in this Parnassian tongue, without further effort of inspiration. Ibid. 217 In Parnassian pieces you feel that if you were the poet you could have gone on as he has done, you see yourself doing it, only with the difference that if you actually try to find you cannot write his Parnassian. Ibid. 218, I believe that when a poet palls on us it is because of his Parnassian.
2. Entom. A butterfly of the genus Parnassius or subfamily Parnassiinæ. |