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Entries: Aestheticism - "Its roots reached back to Theophile Gautier's preface to Mademoiselle de Maupin (1835), which claimed that art has no utility, Poe's theory of "the poem per se" and his rejection of the "heresy of the didactic." Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal, and Mallarme. Dandyism - "One or another species of dandyism has been associated with the life or work of [...] as well as a long succession of French writers from Baudelaire to the present." Decadents - Included in list of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French decadents. Paganism - Listed among writers against who charges of paganism were brought because their works or lives opposed what a majority accepted. Poete Maudit - "Once a serious term (for the likes of Poe and Baudelaire) but now largely a cliche." Prose Poem - Appears in list of authors within whose work prose poems can be found. Pure Poetry - "The term was first used by Baudelaire in an essay on Poe." Surrealism - "Surrealism is often regarded as an outgrowth of Dada, although it has discernible roots reaching back to Baudelaire and Rimbaud..." Symbolism - "As Baudelaire---one of the principal forerunners of the movement---said, human beings live in a 'forest of symbols,' which results form the fact that materiality and individuality of the physical world dissolve into the 'dark and confused unity' of the unseen world. In this process, synesthesia takes place. Baudelaire and the later Symbolists---particularly Mallarme and Valery---were deeply influenced by Poe's theory and poetic practice." Synesthesia - "Baudelaire gave it wide currency through his practice and particularly his sonnet 'Correspondences.'" Tombeau - "It was Mallarme in the late nineteenth century who first used tombeau for poetry; among his poems are 'Le Tombeau d'Edgar Poe,' 'Le Tombeau de Charles Baudelaire,' and 'Tombeau' on Paul Verlaine." Translation - "Some translations have great literary merit in themselves; notably, [...] Baudelaire's Poe..."