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Sender: Symons, Arthur
Recipient: Gosse, Edmund
Letters: 59
Date(s): 11 May 1890 - 23 May 1908
Location: BC Gosse correspondence
Note: Arthur Symons is a writer of both verse and prose, and has published many books, including Studies in Elizabethan Drama, Translations from Baudelaire, and works on Browning, William Blake, and Thomas Hardy, as well as essays and poems. Delightful time in Paris; Rhys; impression of Provence and Spain; differs from G. about Saintsbury; (4 September 1891) just back from Berlin, Heinemann to publish his poems. "Running from flat to flat after actresses from stage door to Green-room club after actors", music halls, his "Causeries de Samedi" in the "Star"; "The Minister's Call", the "Rhymer", Essay on Verlaine; Kipling at the Trocadero; Spanish Music Hall; Mallarme, Miss Willard; review of Ibsen; (21 November 1893) Verlaine's lecture; S. at the Empire; G. on Chritina Rossetti; (1894) G's "Poems" S. in it; G. on Pater, Yzette Guilbert at the Empire; night life; Montesquieu, Norman Gale, Selwyn Image & S.'s poems; enjoyed G.'s critical Kit-Kats; G's Patmore; (1897) visits Swinburne, G's "Rome",
off to Bayreuth and Moscow; book by W. Doxey quoting G freely; G on Loti; with Yeats, reviews of Dowden, Meredith, article on Moscow; (1898) Donne; S's Beardsley, "The Dome"; money owing for articles; Brunetiere; Seville, Velasquez; Balfour, Yeats; friendship with Moore & Watts-Dunton; Belgian art; account of Troitsa monastery, Byron; G in Norway, S for 5 days with Hardy; (1901) delight with G's book; S's poems in 2 vols. Coleridge, Wordsworth; "Balfour is the only man in politics in whom I feel any interest", Leslie Stephens; (1902) to Cologne, Munich, Bayreuth, Vienna and Constantinople; Casanova; "Hardy" for Encycl. Brit.; (1903) essay on Hawthorne, S. in Italy; G's Jeremy Taylor; (1905) King & Coven. Patmore art. on Wagner; pleased with G's Sir Thomas Browne; S's essay on Rogers; Ibsen, Craigie; (1906) S on Pater have had to snatch at anything that loan from G; Mrs Watts-Dunton; G wants S to write book on Blake, translation for "Mrs Pat"; G's generosity, S's "Harvesters"; Talbade,
Verlaine, G's Ibsen; S's "Romantic moment"; Swinburne's "Duke of Gandia", S's "Book of Paradise"; (1908) G's best books liked in France, against Shaw; Laclos. Much of the correspondence consists of applications by Symons to Gosse for assistance in obtaining literary work.