During her tenure she encountered the very best and worst of late Victorian poetry. Her published reviews, which critic Marysa Demoor
characterises as expressing a hesitant modernism,
Demoor, Marysa. “Women Poets as Critics in the <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>Athenæum</span>: Ungendered Anonymity Unmasked”. Nineteenth-Century Prose, Vol.
Two and a half months after Blind's death, Arthur Symons
completed, in Rome, a brief introduction to A Selection from the Poems of Mathilde Blind, published that year by T. Fisher Unwin
.
Blind, Mathilde. “Introduction”. A Selection from the Poems of Mathilde Blind, edited by Arthur Symons, T. Fisher Unwin, p. v - vii.
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Textual Production
Mathilde Blind
Arthur Symons
followed his selection from MB
's poems with her collected Poetical Works, including a more extended introduction by Richard Garnett
.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Textual Production
Sarojini Naidu
In their introductions to her poems, both Symons
and Gosse
paint SN
as the exotic, mysterious Oriental Other. Gosse describes her as to the fullest extent autochthonous . . . spring[ing] from the very...
Textual Production
Constance Holme
CH
published another faux-naif novel of rural life, The Splendid Fairing. This time the title quotation, All night long the water is crying to me, comes from Arthur Symons
.
Holme, Constance. The Splendid Fairing. Cedric Chivers.
title-page
Textual Features
Iris Tree
The poems reflect key preoccupations of their time and of IT
's literary circle. They are shaped by admiration for the traditions and themes of later nineteenth-century French poetry, the Symbolists, and such English poets...
Reception
Laurence Hope
A number of evaluations of Hope's work appeared at her death. Thomas Hardy
's obituary for her, printed in the Athenæum, praised the tropical luxuriance and Sapphic
fervour of The Garden of Káma...
Reception
Laurence Hope
Hope's work was popular, and was recognised by a number of her contemporaries, including Thomas Hardy
, Arthur Symons
, James Elroy Flecker
, and Edith Thomas
. After her death she garnered, along with...
Publishing
Sarojini Naidu
The volume begins with three tributes to SN
: a poem by A. Rogers
(an English writer for The Indian Magazine and Review) and short excerpts from Gosse
's and Symons
's appraisals of...
Author summary
Sarojini Naidu
Sarojini Naidu
was an Indian poet and political activist who published in English in the first decades of the twentieth century.
The British Library catalogue spells her name Sarojini Nayadu
.
While studying in England...
politics
Laura Ormiston Chant
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...
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,
It was reviewed and praised by Arthur Symons
in early May.
Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. Oxford University Press.
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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
.
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.
