FIGURES OF SEVERAL CENTURIES - Arthur Symons
FIGURES OF SEVERAL CENTURIES
BY ARTHUR SYMONS
British author Arthur Symons (1865-1945) was an important poet, critic and translator. In this book, Symons explores the work and lives of Flaubert, Baudelaire, Donne, Bronte, Casanova, Poe, Rossetti, Hardy, Huysmans, Ibsen and others.
Arthur Symons was known as the 'blond angel', a vagabond poet in the Bohemian tradition of Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud and the Symbolists. Symons spent much of his life in France and Italy; he knew many of the artists and writers of the fin-de-siècle period, including Aubrey Beardsley, Algernon Swinburne, Walter Pater, Edmund Gosse, Joseph Conrad, W.B. Yeats, and Stéphane Mallarmé.
This new edition of Figures of Several Centuries includes a note on Arthur Symons; and illustrations of the artists and writers in the book.
Illustrated. Paperback, with a full colour cover.
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