Arthur Symons

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, included appraisals of Robert Bridges ,...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

SN 's first volume of poetry, The Golden Threshold, was published by William Heinemann in London, with an introduction by Arthur Symons .

Sarojini Naidu was an Indian poet and political activist who published in English in the first decades of the twentieth century. While studying in England...

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...

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...

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

It was reviewed and praised by Arthur Symons in early May.

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...