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Parnassian
Parnassian Par*nas"sian, n. [F. parnassien.] One of a school of French poets of the Second Empire (1852-70) who emphasized metrical form and made the little use of emotion as poetic material; -- so called from the name (Parnasse contemporain) of the volume in which their first poems were collected in 1866.
Parnassian
Parnassian Par*nas"sian, a. [L. Parnassius.] Of or pertaining to Parnassus.
Parnassian
Parnassian Par*nas"sian, n. [See Parnassus.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of butterflies belonging to the genus Parnassius. They inhabit the mountains, both in the Old World and in America.

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- Parn****ianism (or Parn****ism) was a group of French poets that began during the positivist period of the 19th century (1860s–1890s), occurring after romanticism...
- ləkɔ̃t də lil]; 22 October 1818 – 17 July 1894) was a French poet of the Parn****ian movement. He is traditionally known by his surname only, Leconte de Lisle...
- Brazilian Parn****ian poet, journalist and translator. Alongside Alberto de Oliveira and Raimundo Correia, he was a member of the "Parn****ian Triad". He...
- Parn****ius smintheus, the Rocky Mountain parn****ian or Rocky Mountain apollo, is a high-altitude butterfly found in the Rocky Mountains throughout the...
- The Parn****iinae or snow Apollos are a subfamily of the swallowtail butterfly family, Papilionidae. The subfamily includes about 50 medium-sized, white...
- Parn****ius is a genus of northern cir****polar and montane (alpine and Himalayan) butterflies usually known as Apollos or snow Apollos. They can vary in...
- poetic tradition, on the other hand, the influence of the Symbolist and Parn****ian movements was paramount. Many of the writers in the Tanzimat period wrote...
- novelist, playwright, and poet, whose poetry was most influenced by the Parn****ian poets. Herman Elroy Flecker was born on 5 November 1884 in Lewisham, London...
- Eversmann's parn****ian Parn****ius clodiusClodius parn****ian Parn****ius phoebusPhoebus parn****ian Parn****ius smintheusRocky Mountain parn****ian Battus...
- allowing freer versification, and rejecting Parn****ian clarity and objectivity, it retained Parn****ianism's love of word play and concern for the musical...