Arthur Symons
Arthur Symons, who was of Welsh descent, displayed his literary talent as a young man. He published his first book, An Introduction to the Study of Browning, in 1886. A member of the Rhymers’ Club, Symons wrote verse and criticism. He and Yeats shared lodgings in Fountain Court for several months in 1896, and they were fellow guests of Edward Martyn at his home, Tullyra Castle, in County Galway, Ireland in August of that year. Symons edited The Savoy, an influential 1890s periodical which contained many works by Yeats, during 1896, the single year of The Savoy’s life.
Arthur Symons, 1865 -1945.
Silhouettes
London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1892.
Special Collections, Golda Meir Library
(SPL) PR 5527 .S5 1892
Silhouettes and London Nights were two of Symons’s earliest published works. Written during the period of the Rhymers’ Club, they focus on the physical experiences of human life. Symons’s article on “The Decadent Movement in Literature” published in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine established him as the leader and spokesperson of the decadent movement in England.
Arthur Symons, 1865-1945.
London Nights
London: Leonard C. Smithers, 1895.
Special Collections, Golda Meir Library
(SPL) PR 5527 .L6 1895