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John Addington, The Younger Symonds

Male : Poet, Essayist, Critic, Historian & Biographer. Married Catherine North 1864. Homosexual. Probably died of TB
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Clifton, Bristol

Date of Birth : 1840 Date of Death : 1893 Age : 52

Education : Harrow & Balliol College, Oxford (Classics)
1860-1875
The Escorial : A Prize Poem
(1860 Shrimpton, Oxford. Wraps)
The Renaissance : An Essay
(1863 Henry Hammans)
Verses
(1871 PP for circulation)
Introduction to the Study of Dante
(1872 Smith Elder)
Studies of the Greek Poets : 1st Series
(1873 Smith Elder)
Sketches in Italy and Greece
(1874 Smith Elder)
The Renaissance in Italy : 1. The Age of Despots
(1875-86 Smith Elder) - 7 vols
Studies of the Greek Poets : 2nd Series
(1875 Smith Elder)

1876-1880
Many Moods : A Volume in Verse
(1878 Smith Elder)
The Sonnets of Michelangelo Buonarroti & Tommaso Campanella
(1878 Smith Elder)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
(1878 Macmillan) (1879 Harper NY)
Sketches and Studies in Italy
(1879 Smith Elder)
New and Old : A Volume of Verse
(1880 Smith Elder) - 2 different bindings

1881-1885
Animi Figura
(1882 Smith Elder)
Italian Byways
(1883 Smith Elder)
A Problem in Greek Ethics
(1883 PP) - 10 copies
(1901 PP Leonard Smithers) - 100
(1908 PP, Aereopagitica Society)
Fragilia Labilia
(1884 PP) - 25 copies
(1902 Mosher US) - 50 on Japanese vellum + 450 on Kelmscott hand-made paper
Vagabunduli Libellus
(1884 Kegan Paul & Trench)
Wine Women and Song : Goliardic Songs of Medieval Students
(1884 Chatto & Windus) + 50 Large Paper
(1889 Portland US)
Shakespeare's Predecessors in the English Drama
(1884 Smith Elder)
Miscellanies
(1885 PP) - 2 vols. only 6 copies of each volume

1886-1890
Sir Philip Sidney
(1886 Macmillan)
Life of Ben Jonson
(1886 Longmans Green)
Shelley
(1887 Macmillan)
The Life of Benvenuto Cellini
(1888 J C Nimmo) - 2 vols. 750 copies + 100 Large Paper sets
(1888 Nimmo. 2nd Ed) - 100. 2 vols
(1900 Vale Press, London) - 2 vols. 300
(Trans) The Memoirs of Count Gozzi (1890 John C Nimmo) - 2 vols. 780
Essays Speculative and Suggestive
(1890 Chapman & Hall) - 2 vols

1891-1900
The Life of Michelangelo Buonarrotti
(1892 J C Nimmo) - 2 vols. + 112 Large Paper
Our Life in the Swiss Highlands
(1892 A & C Black, London) - with Margaret Symonds
In the Key of Blue and Other Prose Essays
(1893 Elkin Mathews & John Lane)
(1893 Macmillan NY) + 50 copies in full vellum
A Short History of the Renaissance in Italy
(1893 Smith Elder)
Studies of the Greek Poets : Both Series
(1893 A & C Black. 3rd Ed) - 2 vols
Walt Whitman : A Study
(1893 Nimmo, London) + 208 Large Paper
On the English Family of Symonds
(1894 PP) - 100
Giovanni Boccaccio
(1895 Nimmo)
Blank Verse
(1895 Nimmo)
A Problem in Modern Ethics, being an Enquiry into the Phenomenon of Sexual Inversion
(1896 PP London) - 100
Offered in 1999 for £200
Sexual Inversion : Vol 1 of Studies in the Psychology of Sex
(1897 Wilson & Macmillan) - with Havelock Ellis. Slipcase
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece
(1898 Smith Elder) - 3 vols

After 1901
Letters and Papers of John Aldington Symonds
(1923 John Murray) - Edited by Horatio F Brown
The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti
(1925 Scribner NY. 3rd Ed) - 2 vols
Studies in Sexual Inversion
(1928 PP)
(Trans) Medieval Latin Student Songs (1928 Windsor Press, SF) - 150
Lorenzo of Medici : Four Poems
(1962 Coronation Press US)
Sexual Inversion
(1964 Medical Press, New York)
The Letters
(1967-9 Wayne State UP, Detroit) - 3 vols. Edited by H M Schueller & R L Peters
Gabriel : A Poem
(1974 Michael de Hartington) + 10 copies on green paper
Male Love : A Problem in Greek Ethics & Other Writings
(1983 Pagan Press, US)

READING
Horatio F Brown : John Addington Symonds : A Biography
(1895 Nimmo) - 2 vols
Horatio F Brown : John Addington Symonds
(1903 Murray)
Van Wyck Brooks : Addington Symonds - A Biographical Study
(1914 Grant Richards)
Charles Kains Jackson : John Addington Symonds - A Portrait
(1915 Bruno US)
Percy L Babington : Bibliography of the Writings of John Addington Symonds
(1925 John Castle, London) - 500
Phyllis Grosskurth : John Addington Symonds - A Biography
(1964 Longmans)
(in US as The Woeful Victorian (1965 Holt)
(Ed) Phyllis Grosskurth : The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds
(1984 Hutchinson) (1984 Random House)

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