In the Key of Blue and Other Prose Essays by John Addington Symonds (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781410203878)

Poet, essayist, and literary historian, John Addington Symonds (1840-1893) delved into every field of the humanities, writing the celebrated Renaissance in Italy and publishing translations of the Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini and the Sonnets of Michelangelo and Campanella; he wrote biographies of Shelley, Sidney, and Jonson, and collaborated with Havelock Ellis on a number of projects in sexology. He is remembered for his untiring efforts to loosen the restraints on homosexuals in England, and his Memoirs are the only diary of a Victorian homosexual of his stature. "There is an interval of more than thirty years between the earliest of the series, "Clifton and a Lad's Love," and the latest. I have tried to make the selection representative of the different kinds of work in which I have been principally engaged - Greek and Renaissance Literature, Description of Places, Translation, Criticism, Original Verse."

Author: John Addington Symonds
ISBN-10: 1410203875
ISBN-13: 9781410203878
Publisher: University Press of the Pacific
Language: English
Published: 12/30/2002
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.02w x 0.83d