 While being influenced by hermeticism, allowing freer versification, and rejecting Parnassian clarity and objectivity, it retained Parnassianism's love of word play and concern for the musical qualities of verse.The Symbolists continued to admire Théophile Gautier's motto of "art for art's sake", and retained – and modified – Parnassianism's mood of ironic detachment.Many Symbolist poets, including Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Verlaine, published early works in "Le Parnasse contemporain", the poetry anthologies that gave Parnassianism its name.