The complete online text of An Introduction to the Study of Browning by Arthur Symons.

Of late-nineteenth-century writers of prose, such as Edmund Gosse, George Moore, and George Saintsbury, Arthur Symons has been acknowledged as a crucial figure in the development of Modernism, as the most important disciple of Walter Pater, and as a sign...

In a letter dated 24 October 1885 to the author James Dykes Campbell, Arthur Symons wrote, "I like always to trace the course of a man's work in the circumstances of his life--to see, when it is possible to do so, how such a result came from such a cause...

In recent years Arthur Symons has been increasingly recognized as an important influence in the development of the modern aesthetic. Not so long ago he was regarded as little more than a typical impressionistic critic and an outmoded, hot-house poet of t...

On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision in Brown v. Topeka Board of Education that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." The decision effectively denied the legal basis for segregation in Kansas and 20 other states with segregated classrooms...

Walter Benjamin was firmly committed to the "Irrkunste" of the urban flaneur, to those arts of straying that brought the contemplating subject across unmarked thresholds into new districts and strange, shocking encounters with the foreign forces just over the borders of his familiar...