Introduction
Further Reading
Note on the Text
Poetry
From Days and Nights (1889)
From Silhouettes (1892)
From London Nights (1895)
From Amoris Victima (1897)
From Images of Good and Evil (1899)
From The Loom of Dreams (1901)
From The Fool of the World (1906)
From Knave of Hearts (1913)
From Love's Cruelty (1923)
Translations
From Théophile Gautier
From Paul Verlaine
From Stéphane Mallarmé
Prose
Biography
ARTHUR SYMONS was born in Milford Haven in 1865. He lived in London, where he frequented the Rhymers' Club, a group of writers who met at the Cheshire Cheese in Fleet Street between 1891 and 1894. A friend of Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson and Wilde, he was an important influence on Yeats, with whom he shared lodgings for a time. He contributed to The Yellow Book and became editor of The Savoy. Symons was fluent in French and Italian; his The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1899) was influential in introducing French Symbolism to English readers. He was also a translator of Baudelaire and Zola, and a leading literary critic. Symons died in 1945. ROGER HOLDSWORTH lectures in English at the University of Manchester. He has edited plays by Jonson and Middleton, and has been a General Editor of the Malone Society.
