Symonds, John Addington 1840-1893

Overview

Works:	922 works in 4,079 publications in 4 languages and 55,377 library holdings
Genres:	Biography Criticism, interpretation, etc History Records and correspondence Biographies Drama Bibliography Musical settings Church history Sources
Roles:	Author, Translator, Editor, Author of introduction, Librettist, Other, Contributor, Commentator, Annotator, Speaker, Lyricist, Inscriber, Correspondent
Classifications:	NB623.C3, B

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about John Addington Symonds

The memoirs of John Addington Symonds by John Addington Symonds( Book )
John Addington Symonds, a biography by Phyllis Grosskurth( Book )
The woeful Victorian : a biography of John Addington Symonds by Phyllis Grosskurth( Book )
The letters of John Addington Symonds by John Addington Symonds( Book )
Sodom on the Thames : sex, love, and scandal in Wilde times by Morris B Kaplan( Book )

John Addington Symonds : a biographical study by Van Wyck Brooks( Book )
Bibliography of the writings of John Addington Symonds by Percy L Babington( Book )
John Addington Symonds : culture and the demon desire by John Pemble( Book )
John Addington Symonds, a biography by John Addington Symonds( Book )
The works of John Marston : reprinted from the original editions by John Marston( Book )
Letters and papers of John Addington Symonds by John Addington Symonds( Book )
Out of the past by Margaret Symonds( Book )
Sketches and studies in Italy and Greece by John Addington Symonds( Book )
John Addington Symonds (1840-1893) and homosexuality : a critical edition of sources by Sean Brady( Book )
Three Victorian views of the Italian Renaissance by Richard Titlebaum( Book )
These things shall be : for baritone (or tenor) solo, chorus, and orchestra by John Ireland( )
Eureka, Poe's cosmogonic poem / the political Poe's ripostes to nineteenth century American culture and society / by Katrina Bachinger. Gladstone : medieval and modern Greece / by Eric Glasgow. J.A. Symonds and Greece / by Eric Glasgow by Susan McCaslin( Book )
Tre inglesi, l'Italia, il Rinascimento : sondaggi sulla tradizione di un rapporto culturale e affettivo by Amedeo Quondam( Book )
Verbrüderung : J.A. Symonds, E. Carpenter, E.M. Forster : literarische Porträts by Rainer Guldin( Book )
Die italienische renaissance in dem englischen geistesleben des 19, jahrhunderts im besondern bei John Ruskin, John Addington Symonds und Vernon Lee. Von E. Max Bräm by E. Max Bräm( Book )

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Most widely held works by John Addington Symonds

The autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini( Book )

228 editions published between 1888 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 5,567 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Benvenuto Cellini was a celebrated Renaissance sculptor and goldsmith; a passionate craftsman who was admired and resented by the most powerful political and artistic personalities in sixteenth-century Florence, Rome and Paris. He was also a murderer and a braggart, a shameless adventurer who at different times experienced both papal persecution and imprisonment, and the adulation of the royal court. Inn-keepers and prostitutes, kings and cardinals, artists and soldiers rub shoulders in the pages of his notorious autobiography: a vivid portrait of the manners and morals of both the rulers of the day and of their subjects. Written with supreme powers of invective and an irrepressible sense of humor, this is an unrivalled glimpse into the palaces and prisons of the Italy of Michelangelo and the Medici

Shelley by John Addington Symonds( Book )

125 editions published between 1877 and 2014 in 3 languages and held by 1,552 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

John Addington Symonds (1840-93), well known as an author, poet and critic, wrote this biography of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) in an attempt to portray the complete man. Shelley, Symonds writes, was more than a controversial atheist. He was full of earnest conviction, enthusiasm, and intellectual vigour, but also extravagance, crudity and presumption. Published in 1878 in the first series of English Men of Letters, this book thus provides an account of a literary life famously cut short, describing a writer whose intellectual and poetic legacy was perhaps not fully appreciated in the Victorian period, when the response to his poems was frequently coloured by antipathy to his revolutionary ideas and his unconventional private life, as well as to his loudly proclaimed atheism

Sir Philip Sidney by John Addington Symonds( Book )

84 editions published between 1879 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,450 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86) was an English poet and courtier who is now seen as one of the most influential English writers of the sixteenth century. Born into a politically active family, Sidney is best known for his works Astrophel and Stella, a story in sonnet form which popularised this literary genre in England, and Arcadia, a romance which was the first English vernacular work to be published on the continent. This volume, published in the first series of English Men of Letters in 1886 by literary scholar John Addington Symonds (1840-93), provides a concise biography of a fascinating character. Describing Sidney's childhood, European travels and time spent as a courtier, and his heroic death, this biography draws together previous scholarship on Sidney to provide a valuable account of his life and of contemporary English and continental influences on his work

Shakspere's predecessors in the English drama by John Addington Symonds( Book )

92 editions published between 1884 and 2013 in English and held by 1,442 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The life of Michelangelo Buonarroti by John Addington Symonds( Book )

61 editions published between 1849 and 2016 in English and Spanish and held by 1,319 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini( Book )

33 editions published between 1898 and 2001 in English and held by 1,260 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Autobiography of a sixteenth-century Florentine goldsmith discussing everyday life, manners, morals, and Italian politics

Walt Whitman : a study by John Addington Symonds( Book )

55 editions published between 1893 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,194 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Includes a portrait and four illustrations, this 1893 volume provides an intricate analysis of the themes found throughout Whitman's verses and the poet's unique rhyming style

Renaissance in Italy: the fine arts by John Addington Symonds( Book )

140 editions published between 1877 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 1,169 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The life of Michelangelo Buonarroti : based on studies in the archives of the Buonarroti family at Florence by John Addington Symonds( Book )

71 editions published between 1893 and 2002 in English and held by 1,030 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Renaissance in Italy; the age of the despots by John Addington Symonds( Book )

127 editions published between 1875 and 2012 in 4 languages and held by 904 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Webster and Tourneur by John Webster( Book )

54 editions published between 1888 and 1963 in English and held by 884 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti by Michelangelo Buonarroti( Book )

41 editions published between 1868 and 1948 in 3 languages and held by 859 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Thomas Heywood by Thomas Heywood( Book )

43 editions published between 1888 and 2004 in English and Undetermined and held by 856 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Christopher Marlowe by Christopher Marlowe( Book )

48 editions published between 1887 and 1965 in English and held by 847 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This volume collects many of Christopher Marlowe's major plays. It also includes a helpful introduction which discusses his life, work and influence

Renaissance in Italy: the Catholic reaction by John Addington Symonds( Book )

109 editions published between 1881 and 2010 in English and German and held by 790 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

An introduction to the study of Dante by John Addington Symonds( Book )

54 editions published between 1872 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 765 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Studies of the Greek poets by John Addington Symonds( Book )

48 editions published between 1873 and 2015 in 3 languages and held by 707 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Renaissance in Italy: the revival of learning by John Addington Symonds( Book )

110 editions published between 1877 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 676 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"An excellent survey of the men of the Renaissance. The importance of the revival of learning is covered in four different periods of humanism. Concluding with a chapter on Latin poetry and a general survey this revival played in the great cities during the Renaissance

Renaissance in Italy by John Addington Symonds( Book )

9 editions published between 1888 and 1935 in English and held by 632 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A short history of the renaissance in Italy : taken from the works of John Addington Symonds by John Addington Symonds( Book )

18 editions published between 1893 and 1966 in English and held by 589 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

First published by Smith and Elder in London in 1893. Original work in 7 volumes published between 1875 and 1886

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