Roger Holdsworth 
Arthur Symons [EPUB ebook] 
Selected Writings

Arthur William Symons (1865-1945) is a haunting poet of the modern city, catching its dangerous, complex beauty in works that first introduced the imagery of the urban underworld into English poetry. He was a champion of the French Symbolists. Yeats, Pound and Eliot acknowledged their debt to him and were influenced by his sense of the city as the essential landscape of modernity. As a poet and critic, in his own right, though, Symons has come into his own in recent years. This selection is taken from the full range of Symons » poetry and prose, revealing an experimental writer exploring art, literature and music. Roger Holdsworth »s introduction sets Symons in his context as both an 1890s Decadent and a precursor of Modernism.