Literary Impressionism is influenced by the European Impressionist art movement; as such, many writers adopted a style that relied on associations.
Much of what has been called "impressionist" literature is subsumed into several other categories, especially Symbolism, its chief exponents being Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, Verlaine and Laforgue, and the Imagists.
Authors such as Virginia Woolf (Mrs Dalloway) and Joseph Conrad (Heart of Darkness and "The Lagoon") are among the foremost creators of the form.
[4] The term is used to describe a work of literature characterized by the selection of a few details to convey the sense impressions left by an incident or scene.
This style of writing occurs when characters, scenes, or actions are portrayed from a subjective point of view of reality.