In the Key of Blue and Other Prose Essays by John Addington Symonds
Overview
Poet, essayist, and literary historian, John Addington Symonds (1840-1893) delved into every field of the humanities, writing the celebrated Renaissance in Italy and publishing translations of the Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini and the Sonnets of Michelangelo and Campanella; he wrote biographies of Shelley, Sidney, and Jonson, and collaborated with Havelock Ellis on a number of projects in sexology. He is remembered for his untiring efforts to loosen the restraints on homosexuals in England, and his Memoirs are the only diary of a Victorian homosexual of his stature. "There is an interval of more than thirty years between the earliest of the series, "Clifton and a Lad's Love," and the latest. I have tried to make the selection representative of the different kinds of work in which I have been principally engaged - Greek and Renaissance Literature, Description of Places, Translation, Criticism, Original Verse."
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- ISBN-13: 9781410203878
- ISBN-10: 1410203875
- Publisher: University Press of the Pacific
- Publish Date: December 2002
- Dimensions: 8.22 x 5.02 x 0.83 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.76 pounds
- Page Count: 312
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