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Arthur Symons
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Cities and Sea-coasts and Islands
Arthur Symons's collection of twenty-six essays on travel in Spain, life in London, and sojourns among islands and sea-coasts of France, England, and Ireland first appeared in the United States in 1919. His verbal portraits of the places he visited, whether bold and colorful or sensitive and merely suggestive, are as intriguing and interesting today as when he first wrote them.
Selected Writings
This selection is taken from the full range of Symons' poetry and prose, revealing an experimental writer exploring art, literature, and music. A champion of the French symbolists, he was influential to both Yeats and Pound.
Figures of Several Centuries
Arthur William Symons (1865-1945) was a British poet, critic and magazine editor. He was educated privately, spending much of his time in France and Italy. He edited four of Bernard Quaritch's Shakespeare Quarto Facsimiles. He became a member of the staff of the Athenaeum in 1891, and of the Saturday Review in 1894, but his major editorial feat must be his work with the short-lived Savoy. His first volume of verse, Days and Nights (1889), consisted of dramatic monologues. His later verse is influenced by a close study of modern French writers, of Charles Baudelaire and of Paul Verlaine. He reflects French tendencies both in the subject-matter and style of his poems, in their eroticism and their vividness of description. Symons contributed poems and essays to the Yellow Book, including an important piece which was later expanded into his book, The Symbolist Movement in Literature, which would have a major influence on William Butler Yeats and T. S. Eliot. Amongst his other works are An Introduction to the Study of Browning (1886) and Figures of Several Centuries (1916).
Letters
A selection of letters by the symbolist critic and poet, Arthur Symons (1865-1945), including correspondence with such figures as James Joyce, W.B.Yeats, Joseph Conrad, Paul Verlaine, Edmund Gosse, Thomas Hardy and Augustus John to reveal the world of literary London at the turn of the century.
