Arthur Symons

Standard Name: Symons, Arthur

Connections

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Textual Production Laurence Alma-Tadema
As translator of Maeterlinck , LAT signed (with Yeats , Meredith , Swinburne , Hardy , Arthur Symons , Lucas Malet , John Oliver Hobbes, and others) a letter to the Times protesting against...
Textual Production Mathilde Blind
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.
Friends, Associates Mona Caird
She met Arthur Symons in June 1889, and in the following month Thomas Hardy carefully arranged to sit between her and Rosamund Marriott Watson (and opposite F. Mabel Robinson ) at a dinner of the...
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,
Ford, Hugh, editor. Nancy Cunard: Brave Poet, Indomitable Rebel 1896-1965. Chilton Book Company.
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but the Hours Press became...
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...
Friends, Associates Michael Field
Katharine and Edith Cooper shared a great many distinguished friends in the worlds of literature and aesthetics: Walter Pater , Oscar Wilde , Arthur Symons , Charles Shannon , Sarianna Browning , Thomas Sturge Moore
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.
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Anthologization Michael Field
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...
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
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...
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...
Literary responses James Joyce
It was reviewed and praised by Arthur Symons in early May.
Ellmann, Richard. James Joyce. Oxford University Press.
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Friends, Associates Charlotte Mew
In the mid-1890s, CM attended literary gatherings at the home of Henry Harland , editor of The Yellow Book. Other writers who attended included Evelyn Sharp , Netta Syrett , Max Beerbohm , Kenneth Grahame

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.