The Poetry Bookshop
issued A Selection From the Poems of Michael Field in 1923, bringing together pieces from their published poetry collections and plays, such as Underneath the Bough, Callirrhoë; Fair Rosamund, Wild...
Education
T. S. Eliot
After the private boys' school Smith Academy
in St Louis (founded by his grandfather) TSE
went on in fall 1906 to Harvard
(where the President was his cousin). He took his BA in literature and...
SN
met a number of notable English literary figures at Miss Manning's accommodations, and particularly Arthur Symons
and Edmund Gosse
, both of whom helped her to launch her literary career.
The story of its publication has been told by Arthur Symons
and Edmund Gosse
, and their accounts reveal considerable English intervention to bring out the Indian aspects of her work. At the age of...
Intertextuality and Influence
Michael Field
From 1890 (when they were introduced to Walter Pater
and attended, along with Oscar Wilde
and Arthur Symons
, a lecture he gave) Katharine and Edith were deeply influenced in their writing by Pater.
Field, Michael, and William Rothenstein. Works and Days. Editors Moore, Thomas Sturge and D. C. Sturge Moore, J. Murray, 1933.
Alice Meynell
in a posthumous review of Rossetti's work in the New Review in 1895 argued for the artistic perfection of poems like The Three Enemies and Uphill, Advent, which exhibit a strong and...
Literary responses
James Joyce
It was reviewed and praised by Arthur Symons
in early May.
Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. New and Revised, Oxford University Press, 1982.
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Occupation
Nancy Cunard
Her purpose in founding the press was to publish mainly contemporary poetry of an experimental kind. Virginia Woolf
warned her that Your hands will always be covered with ink,
Chant's successful opposition to the licence renewal received very public criticism as well as support. Punch dubbed her Mrs Prowlina Pry. One of the opponents of restricting the licence, Arthur Symons
, asked rhetorically...
Timeline
1899: Arthur Symons published The Symbolist Movement...
Writing climate item
1899
Arthur Symons
published The Symbolist Movement in Literature, with an epigraph from Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle
.
Clements, Patricia. Baudelaire and the English Tradition. Princeton University Press, 1985.
Texts
Blind, Mathilde. A Selection from the Poems of Mathilde Blind. Editor Symons, Arthur, T. Fisher Unwin, 1897.
Symons, Arthur. Figures of Several Centuries. E. P. Dutton, 1916.
Blind, Mathilde. “Introduction”. A Selection from the Poems of Mathilde Blind, edited by Arthur Symons, T. Fisher Unwin, 1897, p. v - vii.
Garnett, Richard, and Mathilde Blind. “Memoir”. The Poetical Works of Mathilde Blind, edited by Arthur Symons and Arthur Symons, T. Fisher Unwin, 1900, pp. 1-43.
Naidu, Sarojini, and Arthur Symons. The Golden Threshold. William Heinemann, 1905.
Naidu, Sarojini, and Arthur Symons. The Golden Threshold. William Heinemann, 1909.
Naidu, Sarojini et al. “The Golden Threshold, 1905”. Electronic Text Center: University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, PA.
Blind, Mathilde. The Poetical Works of Mathilde Blind. Editor Symons, Arthur, T. Fisher Unwin, 1900.
Beardsley, Aubrey. The Savoy. Editor Symons, Arthur, Leonard Smithers.