Arthur Symons

Standard Name: Symons, Arthur

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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...
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...
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...
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...
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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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, 1974.
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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, 1897, 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, 2002, 2 vols.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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 Athenæum: Ungendered Anonymity Unmasked”. Nineteenth-Century Prose, Vol.
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, No. 1, 1997, pp. 51-71.
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included appraisals of Robert Bridges ,...

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