John Addington Symonds
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John Addington Symonds Jr. was an English poet and literary critic. A cultural historian, he was known for his work on the Renaissance, as well as numerous biographies of writers and artists. Although
Symonds, picture for Walt Whitman, dated 1889
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Symonds by Carlo Orsi
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Edmund Gosse
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Sir Edmund William Gosse was an English poet, author and critic. He was strictly brought up in a small Protestant sect, the Plymouth Brethren, but broke away sharply from that faith. His account of hi
John Addington Symonds
…grave of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Symonds left his papers and his autobiography in the hands of Brown, who wrote an expurgated biography in 1895, which Edmund Gosse further stripped of homoerotic content before publication. In 1926, upon coming into the possession of Symonds's papers, Gosse burned everything except…
Portrait by John Singer Sargent, 1886
Edmund Gosse in 1857, with father Philip Henry Gosse