Publisher's Synopsis
In this volume of selected letters of the symbolist critic and poet, Arthur Symons (1865-1945), the editors have included the best of Symons' extensive correspondence with such figures as James Joyce, W.B.Yeats, Joseph Conrad, Paul Verlaine, Edmund Gosse, Thomas Hardy and Augustus John.;The letters reveal the world of literary London in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, of the development of early Modernism and of Symons' sudden mental breakdown in 1908.;Supplementary material is included, such as a long previously unpublished letter on Symons by Havelock Ellis, his friend for over forty years.;Karl Beckson also wrote "Henry Harland: His Life and Work" and "Arthur Symons: A Life".
