![Poetry and Prose [Of] Arthur Symons](/jacket/500x500/9780856350597.jpg)
Publisher's Synopsis
Arthur William Symons (1865-1945)-poet, critic and translator-is only now coming to be valued at his true worth. He was an early champion of the French Symbolists in England, a friend of many important writers at the turn of the century (notably Yeats, with whom he once shared a flat and who found him
`more intelligently sympathetic than any man I have known'). As an influence and as a teacher his mark is clear; as poet and critic his work has been too long undervalued. This selection-the first to appear-is made from the full range of Symons's poetry and prose, and the Introduction offers a penetrating discussion of Symons as both a Decadent artist of the 1890s and as the precursor of such modern poets as Eliot and Pound.
R. V. Holdsworth lectures in English at the University of Manchester.
