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John Addington Symonds
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John Addington Symonds : Life of Symonds
'I have been reading the life of Mr Symonds, and it makes me almost laugh (though little laughing is in my heart) to think of the strange difference between this prosaic little narrative, all about the facts of a life so simple as mine, and his elaborate self-discussions'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant Print: Book
John Addington Symonds : Studies of the Greek Poets
'I am deep in a review of Symonds's last book whenever I can get time.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde Print: Book
John Addington Symonds : Thoughts on Xmas. In Florence, 1863
'on their wedding journey they [John Symonds and Catherine North] have been writing a paper on Christmas, - which looks to me [italics] very [end italics] clever, & Mr Symonds wants to know if it can go into the Cornhill for January'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Manuscript: Unknown
John Addington Symonds : unknown
'The other day I borrowed a volume of Symonds's poems from himself and returned it to him without a word of comment.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book
John Addington Symonds : Introduction to Dante
Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde read and re-read everything available to him in prison. 'Gaston de Latour by Walter Pater, MA (Macmillan), Milman's History of Latin Christianity, Wordsworth's Complete Works in one volume with preface by John Morley (Macmillan, 7/6), Matthew Arnold's Poems. One volume complete. (Macmillan, 7/6), Dante and other Essays by Dean Church (Macmillan, 5/-), Percy's Reliques, Hallam's Middle Ages (History of), Dryden's Poems (1 vol. Macmillan. 3/6), Burns's Poems ditto, Morte D'Arthur ditto, Froissart's Chronicles ditto, Buckle's History of Civilisation, Marlowe's Plays, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (edited by A. Pollard 2 vols 10/-) Macmillan, Introduction to Dante by John Addington Symonds, Companion to Dante by A.J. Butler, Miscellaneous Essays by Walter Pater, An English translation of Goethe's Faust'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde Print: Book
John Addington Symonds : Studies of the Greek Poets, vols 1 and 2
'The first volume of Symond's "Studies of the Greek Poets", issued in 1873, was "perpetually" in Wilde's "hands" at Trinity [Dublin]. The second volume came out in 1876, when he was at Oxford. On the title-page, he wrote "Oscar F.O'F. W. Wilde. S.M. Magdalen College, Oxford, May '76." The date indicates that Wilde purchased the book hot off the printing press.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Oscar Wilde Print: Book
John Addington Symonds : Animi Figura
'Symonds, talking of cultshaw, has just written a book of sonnets, which I think really should interest and amuse a few of us.'
