Arthur William Symons (1865-1945) is a haunting poet of the modern city, catching its dangerous, complex beauty in works that first introduced the imagery of the urban underworld into English poetry. He was a champion of the French Symbolists. Yeats, Pound and Eliot acknowledged their debt to him and were influenced by his sense of the city as the essential landscape of modernity. As a poet and critic, in his own right, though, Symons has come into his own in recent years. This selection is taken from the full range of Symons' poetry and prose, revealing an experimental writer exploring art,...
Arthur William Symons (1865-1945) is a haunting poet of the modern city, catching its dangerous, complex beauty in works that first introduced the ima...
Arthur Symons's collection of twenty-six essays on travel in Spain, life in London, and sojourns among islands and sea-coasts of France, England, and Ireland first appeared in the United States in 1919. In The New Republic, noted writer and critic Padraic Colum remarked that "it is not an artist's sketch-book nor is it a writer's note-book: it is a book in which the most remarkable of the impressionist writers, and the one. with the most singular curiosity, gives finished studies of places that for him have history". Symons's verbal portraits of these places, whether bold and colorful or...
Arthur Symons's collection of twenty-six essays on travel in Spain, life in London, and sojourns among islands and sea-coasts of France, England, and ...
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The "Petits Poemes en Prose" are experiments, and they are also confessions. "Who of us," says Baudelaire in his dedicatory preface, "has not dreamed, in moments of ambition, of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm and without rhyme, subtle and staccato enough to follow the lyric motions of the soul, the wavering outlines of meditation, the sudden starts of the conscience?" This miracle he has achieved in these bagatelles laboriueses, to use his own words, these astonishing trifles, in which the art is not more novel, precise and perfect than the quality of thought and of...
The "Petits Poemes en Prose" are experiments, and they are also confessions. "Who of us," says Baudelaire in his dedicatory preface, "has not dreamed,...
"It is peculiarly true in the case of Edgar Allan Poe that to know him you must know more than the bare facts and dates of his life." (Charles Alphonso Smith) Edgar Allan Poe: the American Fantastic Author.
"It is peculiarly true in the case of Edgar Allan Poe that to know him you must know more than the bare facts and dates of his life." (Charles Alphons...
Lesbia and Other Poems by Arthur Symons. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1920 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.
Lesbia and Other Poems by Arthur Symons. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1920 and may have some imperfections such as ma...
