Arthur Symons (February 28, 1865 - January 22, 1945), was a British poet and critic. February 28 is the 59th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1865 is a common year starting on Sunday. ... January 22 is the 22nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... A critic (derived from the ancient Greek word krites meaning a judge) is a person who offers a value judgement or an interpretation. ...

Life

Born in Wales, of Cornish parents, Symons was educated privately, spending much of his time in France and Italy. In 1884-1886 he edited four of Bernard Quaritch's Shakespeare Quarto Facsimiles, and in 1888-1889 seven plays of the "Henry Irving" Shakespeare. He became a member of the staff of the Athenaeum in 1891, and of the Saturday Review in 1894. National motto: Cymru am byth (Welsh: Wales for ever) Waless location within the UK Official languages English, Welsh Capital Cardiff Largest city Cardiff First Minister Rhodri Morgan Area  - Total Ranked 3rd UK 20,779 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 3rd UK 2,903,085 140/km² Ethnicity: 97. ... Motto: Onan hag oll (Cornish: One and all) Cornwall, England Geography Status Ceremonial and (smaller) Administrative county Traditional county Duchy of Cornwall Region South West England Area - Total - Admin. ... Bernard Quaritch (April 23, 1819 - December 17, 1899) was a German-born British bookseller and collector. ... Henry Irving, as Hamlet, in a 1893 illustration from The Idler magazine John Henry Brodribb Irving (February 6, 1838–October 13, 1905), better known as Sir Henry Irving, was one of the most famous stage actors of all time. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... The Athenaeum was a literary magazine published in London from 1828 to 1921. ... 1891 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Saturday Review is a UK publication for which Winston Churchill reported. ... 1894 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

His first volume of verse, Days and Nights (1889), consisted of dramatic monologues. His later verse is influenced by a close study of modern French writers, of Baudelaire and especially of Verlaine. He reflects French tendencies both in the subject-matter and style of his poems, in their eroticism and their vividness of description. Symons contributed poems and essays to the Yellow Book, including an important piece which was later expanded into his book on The Symbolist Movement in Literature. 1889 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Charles Baudelaire Charles Pierre Baudelaire (April 9, 1821–August 31, 1867) was one of the most influential French poets. ... Paul Verlaine illustrated in the frontispiece of , 1902 Paul Marie Verlaine (March 30, 1844 – January 8, 1896) is considered one of the greatest and most popular of French poets. ... This page is about the literary journal. ... La mort du fossoyeur (The death of the gravedigger) by Carlos Schwabe is a visual compendium of Symbolist motifs. ...

In 1902 he made a selection from his earlier verse, published as Poems. He translated from the Italian of Gabriele D'Annunzio The Dead City (1900) and The Child of Pleasure (1898), and from the French of Émile Verhaeren The Dawn (1898). To The Poems of Ernest Dowson (1905) he prefixed an essay on the deceased poet, who was a kind of English Verlaine and had many attractions for Symons. In 1909 Symons suffered a psychotic breakdown, and published very little new work for a period of more than twenty years. 1902 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Gabriele DAnnunzio (12 March 1863 – 1 March 1938) was an Italian poet, writer, dramatist, daredevil and war hero, who went on to have a controversial role in politics as a precursor of the fascist movement. ... 1900 is a common year starting on Monday. ... Émile Verhaeren by César Schroevens (bronze, 1918) Emile Verhaeren (May 21, 1855- November 27, 1916) was a Belgian poet writing in the French language, and one of the chief founders of the school of Symbolism. ... Ernest Christopher Dowson (2 August 1867-23 February 1900), an English poet who was associated with the Decadent Movement, was born at Lee, south-east of London. ... 1909 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Psychosis is a generic psychiatric term for mental states in which the components of rational thought and perception are severely impaired. ...

Verse

• Days and Nights (1889)
• Silhouettes (1892)
• London Nights (1895)
• Amoris victima (1897)
• Images of Good and Evil (1899)
• Poems (2 vols.), (1902)
• A Book of Twenty Songs (1905)
• Knave of Hearts (1913). Poems written between 1894 and 1908)
• Love's Cruelty (1923)
• Jezebel Mort, and other poems (1931)

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Essays

• Studies in Two Literatures (1897)
• Aubrey Beardsley: An Essay with a Preface (1898)
• The Symbolist School in Literature (1899)
• Cities (1903), word-pictures of Rome, Venice, Naples, Seville, etc.
• Plays, Acting and Music (1903)
• Studies in Prose and Verse (1904)
• Spiritual Adventures (1905)
• Studies in Seven Arts (1906).
• Figures of Several Centuries (1916)
• Studies in the Elizabethan Drama (1919)
• Charles Baudelaire: A Study (1920)
• Confessions: A Study in Pathology (1930). A book containing Symons's description of his breakdown and treatment.
• A Study of Walter Pater (1934)

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Reference

This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, which is in the public domain. Supporters contend that the Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1911) represents the sum of human knowledge at the beginning of the 20th century; indeed, it was advertised as such. ... The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ...

External links

• Snakeskin: The Arthur Symons Page: includes several poems by Symons
• Works by Arthur Symons at Project Gutenberg