Conceptual grounds of symbolism: philosophical, aesthetic and linguistic aspects

The article examines philosophical and aesthetic principles of symbolism based on personal (somewhat intuitive) comprehension of ideas, feelings, and visions as well as on desire to create works of art in the allusive world using conditional language elements. The article reveals the concept of “linguistic aesthetics of symbolism” connected with rethinking of the word as a unit of language in the literary text and its transforminginto a unit of a different quality - a verbal symbol.