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Symons's early poetry focused on capturing urban life's mysticism and displaying explicit displays of eroticism, such as Days and Nights (1889). His essay on French sculptor Auguste Rodin Studies in Seven Arts (1906) emphasized sensuality and eroticism in Rodin's work.
Symons's book is a collection of short essays on various authors. A list of contents is useful, among other reasons, for determining the time and trace of its influence. Eliot, for instance, would not have read about Baudelaire in his 1908 edition. Essays on English authors were added for Symons's 1924 Collected Works.
It was republished by Edmond Deman in 1899, the year after Mallarmé's death; this edition included an additional section where Mallarmé wrote about the background and circumstances under which most of the poems had been written. [1] The book was translated to English by Arthur Symons, and first published in its entirety in 1986 by Tragara ...
[3] [5] [20] The pursuit of these authors, according to Arthur Symons, was "a desperate endeavor to give sensation, to flash the impression of the moment, to preserve the very heat and motion of life", and their achievement, as he saw it, was "to be a disembodied voice, and yet the voice of a human soul". [21]
Clare was relatively forgotten in the later 19th century, but interest in his work was revived by Arthur Symons in 1908, Edmund Blunden in 1920 and John and Anne Tibble in their ground-breaking 1935 two-volume edition, while in 1949 Geoffrey Grigson edited Poems of John Clare's Madness (published by Routledge and Kegan Paul).
Three Songs is a set of songs for high voice and piano composed in 1918–19 by John Ireland (1879–1962). It consists of settings of three poems by Arthur Symons (1865–1945).
The Memoirs of Arthur Symons: Life and Art in the 1890s; The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1977. Henry Harland: His Life and Work; The Eighteen Nineties Society, 1978. Oscar Wilde: A Memoir by Theodore Wrattislaw; Foreword by Sir John Betjeman; Introduction and Notes by Karl Beckson; The Eighteen Nineties Society, 1979.
A Selection from the Poems of Mathilde Blind, edited by A. Symons (1897) The Ascent of Man , new edition with new "Introductory Note" by the evolutionary biologist Alfred R. Wallace (1899) The Poetical Works of Mathilde Blind , edited by Arthur Symons, with a memoir by Richard Garnett (1900)