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This digital document, covering the life and work of Arthur Symons, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 2576 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

• Place and date of birth and death (if deceased)
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• A description of the author's work
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Arthur Symons s (1865-1945) prominence at the end of the nineteenth century and subsequent influence on early-twentieth-century literature is well established. His biographer Karl Beckson aptly calls hima major figure who helped stimulate the Modernist initiative. The breadth of his artistic interests and critical commentary remains extraordinary. In addition to writing short stories, poems, plays, travel sketches, and translations, Symons was a prolific critic and editor who wrote about literature and what he termedthe seven arts.Yeats famously offered him the laurelbest critic of his generation.Symons championed freedom of subject matter and literary style and thus influenced the work of Yeats, Eliot, Pound, Joyce, and others, particularly in introducing them to the evocative work of French symbolist writers.*Arthur Symons, Critic Among Critics: An Annotated Bibliography* documents the scholarly attention Symons continues to receive not only for his critical influence, but for his own creative work. This annotated bibliography captures over 1300 articles, books, reviews, dissertations, and other writings about Symons, revising and updating Carol Simpson Stern s 1974 bibliography published in *English Literature in Transition, 1880 1920*. Over 1000 new items appear, some of these from unsigned articles now identified as written by authors such as Virginia Woolf and John Middleton Murry.The book, arranged alphabetically by author with annotations in paraphrase style, includes a helpful index and provides a chronological list of works published from the1880s to early 2007 that will prove useful in tracing the evolution of criticism about Symons. *Arthur Symons, Critic Among Critics* joins ELT Press s *Arthur Symons: A Bibliography* (1990), which covers the primary works, to give scholars a comprehensive view of his writings. ... Read more

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In this new biography of Arthur Symons (1865-1945), Karl Beckson uses much previously unpublished material that reveals new dimensions of Symons's life and art.As a critic and poet, Symons was a major figure in the development of early Modernism in England.The impact on twentieth-century writers of his major work, The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1899), and his personal relationships with such figures as Walter Pater, Paul Verlaine, W.B. Yeats, Joseph Conrad, and James Joyce, have assured Symons an important place in literary history.At the time of his mental breakdown in 1908 - told here in harrowing detail - Yeats called him 'the best critic of his generation'.This biography provides not only an account of Symons's career that confirms Yeats's judgement but also the fullest account of his life to date. ... Read more