| Arthur Symons: Selected Writings Contributor(s): Holdsworth, Roger (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415969670 ISBN-13: 9780415969673 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $47.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2003 Annotation: 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, literature and music. Roger Holdsworth's introduction sets Symons in his context as both an 1890s Decadent and a precursor of Modernism. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 821.8 |
| LCCN: 75326660 |
| Series: Fyfield Books |
| Physical Information: 0.29" H x 5.34" W x 8.52" (0.32 lbs) 100 pages |
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| Publisher Description: First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |