DRAMATIS PERSONAE

<p><strong>DRAMATIS PERSONAE</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>BY ARTHUR SYMONS</strong></p><p><br></p><p>British author <strong>Arthur Symons</strong> (1865-1945) was an important poet critic and translator. In this book of essays Symons explores the works and lives of Conrad the Rossettis Bronte Leonardo Shakespeare Burton Verhaeren Maeterlick and others. </p><p>Arthur Symons was known as the 'blond angel' a vagabond poet in the Bohemian tradition of Charles Baudelaire Arthur Rimbaud and the Symbolists. Symons spent much of his life in France and Italy; he knew many of the artists and writers of the fin-de-siècle period including Aubrey Beardsley Algernon Swinburne Walter Pater Edmund Gosse Joseph Conrad W.B. Yeats and Stéphane Mallarmé. </p><p>This new edition of <em>Figures of Several Centuries</em> includes a note on Arthur Symons; and illustrations of the artists and writers in the book. </p><p>Illustrated. Paperback with a full colour cover.</p><p>www.crmoon.com</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>