Symbolism was first a literary, then an artistic movement, which brought together a large number of writers and artists from all over the world based on its aesthetic program. Thanks to its cosmopolitan character, symbolism, originally French, would conquer all of Europe and America, both Spanish and Anglo-Saxon. This movement was French in essence and expression, but foreigners participated in it from the very beginning: Greeks like Jean Moréas, the pseudonym of Papadiamantopulos, Flemings like Rodenbach, Maeterlink, Verhaeren, Max Elskamp, Albert Mockel and Van Lerberghe, Anglo – Saxons such as Stuart Merrill and Francis Viele-Griffi, Jews such as Gustave Kahn, Spaniards such as Armand Godoy and many others, among whom should be mentioned the work also written in French by the Italian Gabriele D'Annunzio, the English Oscar Wilde and the Romanian Alexandru Macedonski (contributor to one of the first magazines of the current, „La Wallonie”). Mallarmé meant for the evolution of poetry what Einstein would mean later for revolutionizing physics. He took the decisive step that spirituality required for poetry to move to a higher level.