Figures of Several Centuries (Classic Reprint), by Arthur Symons
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Excerpt from Figures of Several CenturiesThe Confessions of St. Augustine are the first autobiography, and they have this to distinguish them from all other autobiographies, that they are addressed directly to God. Rousseau's unburdening of himself is the last, most effectual manifestation of that nervous, defiant consciousness of other people which haunted him all his life. He felt that all the men and women whom he passed on his way through the world were at watch upon him, and mostly with no very favourable intentions. The exasperation of all those eyes fixed upon him, the absorbing, the protesting self-consciousness which they called forth in him, drove him, in spite of himself, to set about explaining himself to other people, to the world in general. His anxiety to explain, not to justify, himself was after all a kind of cowardice before his own conscience.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Figures of Several Centuries (Classic Reprint), by Arthur Symons- Published on: 2015-09-27
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.02" h x .84" w x 5.98" l, 1.20 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 410 pages
About the Author Symons was a pivotal figure in British literature of the 1890s
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. One century in particular By Christopher (o.d.c.) Publication date: 1916Arthur Symons was a poet and critic, a minor Decadent, somewhat looked down upon by Oscar Wilde and Max Beerbohm.It is hard to escape the notion that he was the model for Enoch Soames: a memory of the eighteen-nineties.The essays are arranged chronologically by subject, and so one must linger a few centuries over Saint Augustine, John Donee, Casanova, Emily Bronte and Edgar Allan Poe before Mr. Symons really begins to get interesting. Coventry Patmore may be about 1/10,000 as important as Saint Augustine, but Symons's personal recollections of this older minor poet have a freshness and interest no one can attain about Augustine and other 'greats.' His essay on Walter Pater is likewise intimate and revealing:... Of De Quincey he spoke with an admiration which I had difficulty in sharing, and I remember his showing me with pride a set of his works bound in half-parchment, with pale gold lettering on the white backs, and with the cinnamon edges which he was so fond of. Of Flaubert we rarely met without speaking. He thought Julien l'Hospitalier as perfect as anything he had done. L'Education Sentimentale was one of the books which he advised me to read; that, and Le Rouge et le Noir of Stendhal; and he spoke with particular admiration of two episodes in the former, the sickness and the death of the child. Of the Goncourts he spoke with admiration tempered by dislike. Their books often repelled him, yet their way of doing things seemed to him just the way things should be done; and done before almost any one else.Or consider this reflection, prompted by a quote from a letter:'I send this prompt answer, for I know by experience that when I delay my delays are apt to be lengthy.' A review took him sometimes a year to get through; and remained in the end, like his letters, a little cramped, never finished to the point of ease, like his published writings.
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