Symbolism is a blending of sensibility and imagination. Thus, it is a new variation on romanticism. Symbolist poetry is poetry of indirection, in which objects tend to be suggested rather than named, or to be used primarily for an evocation of mood.
The techniques of the French Symbolists, who exploited private symbols in a poetry of rich suggestiveness rather than explicit statement, had an immense influence throughout Europe, and (especially in the 1890s and later) in England and America as well, on poets such as Arthur Symons, Ernest Dowson, Yeats, Eliot, Pound, Dylan Thomas, Hart Crane, E.E. Cummings and Wallace Stevens.