Author:John Addington Symonds (1840-1893)

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John Addington Symonds
(1840–1893)

John Addington Symonds

Works

• The Escorial (1860) [1]

• 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) [2]
• 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, Ninth Edition (23) (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, The," 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)," by Richard Garnett in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, 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)
• "Symonds, John Addington," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• John Addington Symonds, a biography (1903), by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown