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(n)Parnassianismthe theories and practice of a school of French poets in the 19th century, especially an emphasis upon art for art's sake, careful metrics, and the repression of emotive elements.“In the early 1880s he embarked on a literary career in Paris, rejecting with equal vehemence the Naturalism of Émile Zola and the Parnassianism of Leconte de Lisle.”