John Addington Symonds
Subtitle: Culture and the Demon Desire
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: July 7, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780312228361
Subjects: 19th Century English Prose; Sexuality In Literature; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Psychology; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Social Science / General; Symonds, John Addington; Views on sexual orientation; General; Renaissance; 1840-1893; 19th century; Criticism and interpretation; England; History; Homosexuality and literature; Sexual orientation in literature; Symonds, John Addington,
Description: "John Addington Symonds (1840-93) ranks with Ruskin and Pater as a leading exponent of the Renaissance and a major arbiter of British and American taste. His translations and essays, his seven-volume Renaissance in Italy, and his Life of Michelangelo established themselves as cardinal texts in the canon of 'culture'. He was also a conspicuous poet, thought much of his verse remained unpublished because of its homosexual content.".

"These essays explore the content and context of Symonds's life and work, and mark a further stage in the reassessment of an important figure."--BOOK JACKET.