 Among English-speaking artists, the closest counterpart to symbolism was aestheticism.The Pre-Raphaelites were contemporaries of the earlier symbolists, and have much in common with them.Symbolism had a significant influence on modernism, (Remy de Gourmont considered the Imagists were its descendants) and its traces can also be detected in the work of many modernist poets, including T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Conrad Aiken, Hart Crane, and W. B. Yeats in the anglophone tradition and Rubén Darío in Hispanic literature.