Arthur Symons 'Spiritual Adventures'

<p>Arthur Symons is best known for his poetry his critical study <em>The Symbolist Movement in Literature </em>(1900) and his editorship of <em>The Savoy </em>(1896). Poised between decadence and modernism his short fiction has been less heralded but deserves a much wider audience for its haunting portraits of painters pianists actresses and aesthetes struggling to balance the competing demands of art and life.</p><p>Fully annotated and supplemented by valuable contextual materials the first critical edition of Symons's fiction reprints <em>Spiritual Adventures </em>(1905) alongside four uncollected early stories and a revealing selection of his essays on travel music and theatre.</p>