Arthur Symons

Standard Name: Symons, Arthur

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Textual Production Sarojini Naidu
SN 's first volume of poetry, The Golden Threshold, was published by William Heinemann in London, with an introduction by Arthur Symons .
The British Library copy was stamped on this date.
Naidu, Sarojini et al. “The Golden Threshold, 1905”. Electronic Text Center: University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, PA.
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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...
Friends, Associates Sarojini Naidu
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.
Intertextuality and Influence Sarojini Naidu
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...
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...
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...
Friends, Associates Walter Pater
From his time at BrasenoseWP knew Oscar Browning . In Oxford and London he socialized with Edmund Gosse , Algernon Charles Swinburne , Simeon Solomon , Oscar Wilde , Vernon Lee , A. Mary F. Robinson
Literary responses Christina Rossetti
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Edith Sitwell
ES loved Christina Rossetti from her childhood, and later thoroughly admired Gertrude Stein . As a young woman, however, she believed: Women's poetry, with the exception of Sappho . . . and Goblin MarketChristina Rossetti and...
Friends, Associates John Millington Synge
JMS 's major supporters in his dramatic career were William Butler Yeats and Augusta, Lady Gregory , who ran the Irish National Theatre . Other famous literary supporters included G. K. Chesterton , John Masefield
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Augusta Webster
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.
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included appraisals of Robert Bridges ,...

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