Author:John Addington Symonds (1840-1893)

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John Addington Symonds
(1840–1893)

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English poet and literary critic

This author wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB9 by the initials "J. A. S."

This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "J. A. S."

Works

The Escorial (1860)

An Introduction to the Study of Dante (1872)
Studies of the Greek Poets (1873)
A problem in Greek ethics: being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to medical psychologists and jurists (1873) 1908 edition
Sketches of Italy and Greece (1874)
Renaissance in Italy (1875-86), in 2 vols.
Many Moods: a volume of verse (1878)
Shelley (1878)
The sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella (1878)
New and Old: a volume of verse (1880)
Animi Figura (1882)
Shakspere's Predecessors in the English Drama (1884) (IA) (external scan)
Vagabunduli libellus (1884)
Ben Jonson (1886)
Sir Philip Sydney (1886)
Our life in the Swiss highlands (1892), co-authored with Margaret Symonds
Walt Whitman: a study (1893)
In the key of blue and other prose essays (1893)
The Life of Michael Angelo Buonarroti (1893)
Essays, speculative and suggestive (1894)
Blank verse (1895)
Giovanni Boccaccio as man and author (1895)
A Problem in Modern Ethics (1896)

Contributions to EB9

“Tasso, Torquato” in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed., 1888).

Contributions to EB1911

"Ficino, Marsilio," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Filelfo, Francesco," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Guarini, Giovanni Battista," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Italy," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (History (C.))
"Machiavelli, Niccolò," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Manutius," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Metastasio," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Petrarch," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Poggio," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Politian, Angelo," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Pontanus, Jovianus," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Renaissance," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Tasso, Torquato," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Translations

The Life of Benvenuto Cellini (1848), by Benvenuto Cellini
Wine, women, and song; mediaeval Latin students' songs now first translated into English verse with an essay (1884)
The memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi (1890), by Carlo Gozzi, in 2 vols.
"Danaë and her Babe adrift", by Simonides of Keos, in Masterpieces of Greek Literature (1902)
"To an uncultured Lesbian Woman", by Sappho, in Masterpieces of Greek Literature (1902)
"Winter", by Alcaeus of Mytilene, in Masterpieces of Greek Literature (1902)

As editor

The works of Virgil (1880) by John Conington

Anthologised

A Christmas Lullaby, in "Our American Holidays - Christmas" (1949), edited by Robert Haven Schauffler

Works about John Addington Symonds

"Symonds, John Addington (2)," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
"Symonds, John Addington (1840-1893)," in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
"Symonds, John Addington," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
"Symonds, John Addington," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
John Addington Symonds, a biography (1903), by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown

Works by this author published before January 1, 1925 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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