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Arthur Symons

1865–1945

Arthur Symons (1865–1945) was a Welsh-born poet and critic, a leading figure of the Decadent and Symbolist movements in Britain in the 1890s. His books of verse include Silhouettes (1892) and London Nights (1895).

His critical study The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1899) introduced French poets such as Verlaine and Mallarmé to English readers. The poems here come from Untermeyer's Modern British Poetry (1920).

Poems (16)

  1. In the Wood of Finvara
  2. Modern Beauty
  3. Rain on the Down
  4. Emmy
  5. The Shadow
  6. Credo
  7. The Ecstasy
  8. Indian Meditation
  9. The Turning Dervish
  10. At Fontainebleau
  11. Javanese Dancers
  12. During Music
  13. To a Portrait
  14. A Roundel of Rest
  15. The Fisher's Widow
  16. The Last Memory

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