Arthur Symons poet, critic, vagabond
Arthur Symons (1865-1945) was a central figure in the cultural and social networks of the British fin de siècle. He was an often controversial poet and critic who introduced British readers to French Decadence and Symbolism and had an equally important if largely unacknowledged influence on the deve...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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2018
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| Schriftenreihe: | Studies in comparative literature
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Arthur Symons (1865-1945) was a central figure in the cultural and social networks of the British fin de siècle. He was an often controversial poet and critic who introduced British readers to French Decadence and Symbolism and had an equally important if largely unacknowledged influence on the development of modernism. In 1908 - the year of a mental breakdown that had a disastrous effect both on his career and posthumous reputation - W.B. Yeats referred to him as 'the best critic of his generation.' Symons's vast body of work also includes fiction and writings on the visual arts, music, theatre and the popular stage, as well as translations of Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Verlaine and D'Annunzio. The essays in this volume reflect the breadth of Symons's interests, reassessing this dynamic writer who played a key mediating role between English and European literatures, and between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. |
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| Beschreibung: | Aus acknowledgements: "Arthur Symons: poet, critic,vagabond originates in a symposium on Arthur Symons that the editors held at the Università Iuva di Venezia in september 2015" Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-186) and index |
| Beschreibung: | viii, 197 Seiten Illustrationen 26 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781781884973 978-1-78188-497-3 |