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Symons was the editor of The Savoy for its entire run of one year (1896), during which time he worked closely with Beardsley, who was the arts editor of the magazine, and Leonard Smithers, who was its publisher. Symons suffered a mental breakdown in 1908 but he soon resumed his incessant activity, publishing extensively before his death in 1945.
Arthur Symons est le fils d'un pasteur originaire de Cornouailles 3, qui lui prodigue dans un premier temps une éducation privée. Le jeune-homme est très tôt déterminé à devenir écrivain. En étudiant libre, il fréquente l' université d'Oxford, et suit les cours de Walter Pater dont le modèle critique et esthétique aura sur lui une ...
he son of a Cornish minister, Arthur Symons was born into The Celtic Twilight and born into religion. The first he enthusiastically embraced, and second he spent the earlier part of his career trying to ignore, only to have it return with a vengeance during his later years. As a pupil of Walter Pater — and a more honestly productive one than ...
In 1908, some months before a mental collapse brought on partly by financial distress and overwork, Arthur Symons predicted that John Clare’s asylum poems would form the basis of his twentieth-century reputation. 1 The prediction was at once discerning and self-fulfilling, and Symons’s inclusion of a large sampling of asylum verse along with previously unpublished manuscript material in ...
The Memoirs end with a harrowing account of Symons's mental breakdown in Italy in 1908. The entire text is annotated by the editor. Although Symons survived until 1945, he recognized--in planning his Memoirs--that his major achievement lay in guiding the student of literature and art through the transitional period between the Victorian and the modern world.
Arthur Symons was a British poet, critic and editor prominent in fin-de-siècle London. He is regarded as one of the foremost literary critics of the 1890s. In London Symons made some of his early literary contacts through the Browning Society, including the eccentric philologist F. J. Furnivall. From him he secured the job of editing various ...
Symbolism. Arthur Symons (born Feb. 28, 1865, Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, Eng.—died Jan. 22, 1945, Wittersham, Kent) was a poet and critic, the first English champion of the French Symbolist poets. Symons’s schooling was irregular, but, determined to be a writer, he soon found a place in the London literary journalism of the 1890s.
