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John Addington Symonds

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British poet, literary critic and cultural historian (1840–1893)

Born 1840
Died 1893

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  • Cover of: A short history of the renaissance in Italy
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  • Cover of: A Problem in Modern Ethics: Being an Inquiry Into the Phenomenon of Sexual Inversion
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    Cover of edition aprobleminmoder00symogoog First published in 1895 — 14 editions
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  • Cover of: Percy Bysshe Shelley

    First published in 1899 — 13 editions
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  • Cover of: Sketches and studies in Italy and Greece
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  • Cover of: Ben Jonson
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  • Cover of: John Addington Symonds, a biography
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  • Cover of: In the key of blue and other prose essays
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  • Cover of: Studies in Sexual Inversion: Embodying a Study in Greek Ethics and a Study in Modern Ethics
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  • Cover of: Best plays of Webster and Tourneur: with an introduction and notes.
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  • Cover of: The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti
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  • Cover of: Studies of the Greek Poets

    First published in 2002 — 7 editions
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  • Cover of: Some account of the life, writings, and character of the late James Cowles Prichard: being the substance of a memoir read at the meeting of the Bath and Bristol branch of the Provincial and Surgical Association, in March, 1849
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  • Cover of: Renaissance in Italy: the revival of learning
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    First published in 1879 — 7 editions
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  • Cover of: Letters and papers.: Collected and edited by Horatio F. Brown.
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    First published in 1923 — 7 editions
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  • Cover of: Landscape Painting and Modern Dutch Artists, by E. B. Greenshields

    First published in 2018 — 6 editions
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  • Cover of: Renaissance in Italy; Volume 5

    First published in 1964 — 6 editions
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  • Cover of: The letters of John Addington Symonds.
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    First published in 1967 — 6 editions
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  • Cover of: Edward Cracroft Lefroy: his life and poems including a reprint of Echoes from Theocritus
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    First published in 1897 — 6 editions
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  • Cover of: Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature; 4 Part. 1

    First published in 1898 — 6 editions
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  • Cover of: Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series

    First published in 1933 — 6 editions
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British poet, literary critic and cultural historian (1840–1893)

Born 1840
Died 1893

Subjects

History and criticism, Renaissance, History, Italian literature, Description and travel, Italian Art, Biography, Homosexuality, Humanism, Catholic Church, Criticism and interpretation, English Authors, English drama, English poetry, Ethics, Social life and customs, Greek poetry, Sexual ethics, Aesthetics, English Poets, English language, English literature, Histoire et critique, Italy, Renaissance Art

Places

Italy, Greece, England, Great Britain, 3 v. 0, Europe, Florence (Italy), Griechenland <Altertum>, Switzerland

People

Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), Philip Sidney Sir (1554-1586), Walt Whitman (1819-1892), Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), John Addington Symonds (1840-1893), Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), Ben Jonson (1573?-1637), Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861), Edward Cracroft Lefroy (1855-1891), James Cowles Prichard (1768-1848), James Cowles Prichard (1786-1848), Michelangelo, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564,), Philip Sidney (1554-1586), Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816), Sidney Sir Philip (1554-1586), Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859), michelangelo

Time

19th century, To 1500, Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600, 1268-1492, 1268-1559, 15th century, 16th century, Early modern, 1500-1700, 1559-1789, Early modern and Elizabethan, Medieval, To 1400

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Alternative names

  • Symonds, John Addington
  • J. A. Symonds
  • John Addington Symond
  • John Addington 1840-1893 Symonds
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  • SYMONDS,John Addington
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November 11, 2024 Edited by Tom Morris merge authors
November 11, 2024 Edited by Tom Morris merge authors
July 25, 2023 Edited by Erraticonteuse Added new photo
July 25, 2023 Edited by Erraticonteuse Edited without comment.
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import