Adjective modifier

• French: In 1890 Yeats and two others formed the Rhymers Club as a sort of literary wing, drawing inspiration from the French Symbolists.

Modifies a noun

• poet: Poe's poetry was a major influence on the French symbolist poets.

• painting: The second island is that of the Temptress - inspired to a degree by the symbolist paintings of the late nineteenth century.

• movement: The symbolist movement was largely underpinned by occult philosophy.

• painter: Burne-Jones was also highly influential among French symbolist painters, from 1889.

• work: Color became an expression of feeling rather than correlative for feeling as in the symbolist work.

• writer: Like contemporary symbolist writers, he sought to express interior states rather than surface appearances.. .