John Addington Symonds: 48 books

Renaissance in Italy Volume II John Addington Symonds, english poet and literary critic (1840-1893) This ebook presents «Renaissance in Italy Volume II», from John Addington Symonds. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of...

Percy Bysshe Shelley John Addington Symonds, english poet and literary critic (1840-1893) This ebook presents «Percy Bysshe Shelley», from John Addington Symonds. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About...

According to Wikipedia: "John Addington Symonds (5 October 1840 - 19 April 1893) was an English poet and literary critic… Meanwhile he was occupied with his major work, Renaissance in Italy, which appeared in seven volumes at intervals between 1875 and 1886. The Renaissance had been the subject...

According to Wikipedia: "John Addington Symonds (5 October 1840 - 19 April 1893) was an English poet and literary critic… Meanwhile he was occupied with his major work, Renaissance in Italy, which appeared in seven volumes at intervals between 1875 and 1886. The Renaissance had been the subject...

According to Wikipedia: "John Addington Symonds (5 October 1840 - 19 April 1893) was an English poet and literary critic… Meanwhile he was occupied with his major work, Renaissance in Italy, which appeared in seven volumes at intervals between 1875 and 1886. The Renaissance had been the subject...

A Problem in Greek Ethics by John Addington Symonds "This book is a ground-breaking study of the Greek institution of paiderastia. This was a custom by which adolescent men made alliances with older men of a romantic and sexual nature. The young men in question were the same age as contemporary...

John Addington Symonds was an English poet and literary critic.  Symonds best known books are his biographies including one on the great poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.  A table of contents is included.

This volume of New Italian Sketches has been made up from two books published in England and America under the titles of Sketches and Studies in Italy and Italian Byways. It forms in some respects a companion volume to my Sketches in Italy already published in the Tauchnitz Collection of British Authors....

When we try to picture to ourselves the intellectual and moral state of Europe in the Middle Ages, some fixed and almost stereotyped ideas immediately suggest themselves. We think of the nations immersed in a gross mental lethargy; passively witnessing the gradual extinction of arts and sciences which...

A Problem in Greek Ethics by John Addington Symonds This book is a ground-breaking study of the Greek institution of paiderastia. This was a custom by which adolescent men made alliances with older men of a romantic and sexual nature. The young men in question were the same age as contemporary...

This essay was one of the first attempts of modern times to examine homosexuality, putting it in a medical, historical and legal context, and propose that civil rights should be extended to gay people. With Edward Carpenter and Walt Whitman, Symonds was one of the pioneers of gay rights and spirituality....

This essay was one of the first attempts of modern times to examine homosexuality, putting it in a medical, historical and legal context, and propose that civil rights should be extended to gay people. With Edward Carpenter and Walt Whitman, Symonds was one of the pioneers of gay rights and spirituality....

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), one of the major English Romantic poets, never lived to see the full extent of his success and influence. His long poems became immensely popular and acclaimed. Symonds’s biography is a fascinating portrait of Shelley’s unconventional life and uncompromising idealism, as well as a record of his association with John Keats and Lord Byron.

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