Arthur Symons
Arthur Symons

Author: Elisa Bizzotto

Publisher: Legenda

Published: 2019-12-16

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9781781884980

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Arthur Symons (1865-1945) was a central figure in the cultural and social networks of the British fin de siècle. The essays in this volume reflect the breadth of Symons's interests, reassessing this dynamic writer who played a key mediating role between English and European literatures, and between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Arthur Symons
Arthur Symons

Author: Arthur Symons

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 9780415969673

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First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Spiritual Adventures
Spiritual Adventures

Author: Arthur Symons

Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB

Published: 2023-09-24

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13:

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I could not read until I was nine years old, and I could not read because I resolutely refused to learn. I declared that it was impossible; that I, at all events, never could do it; and I made the most of a slight weakness in my eyes, saying that it hurt them, and drawing tears out of my eyes at the sight of a book. I liked being read to, and I used to sit on the bed while my sister, who often had to lie down to rest, read out stories to me. I had a theory that a boy must never show any emotion, and the pathetic parts of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' tried me greatly. On one occasion I felt my sobs choking me, and the passion of sorrow, mingled with the certainty that my emotion would betray itself, sent me into a paroxysm of rage, in which I tore the book from my sister's hands, and attacked her with my fists..FROM THE BOOKS.