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Symons, A. J. A.
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Symons, A. J. A. ( Alphonse James Albert Symons ) (1900–41), bibliographer, bibliophile, dandy, and epicure, who became an authority on the literature of the 1890s and published An Anthology of ‘Nineties’...
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Symons, Julian (Gustave)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Symons, Julian (Gustave) (1921–94), crime writer, biographer, and scholar of crime fiction, born in London, brother of A. J. A. Symons . His many novels, which include Bland Beginning (1949) and The Belting...
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Arthur Symons
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Arthur Symons , 1865-1945, English poet and critic. A leader of the symbolists in England, Symons interpreted French decadent poetry to the English through translations, criticism, and his own imitative poems. He was editor of the Savoy...
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Symons, Arthur William
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Symons, Arthur William (1865–1945), poet and critic, became a friend of Yeats , G. A. Moore , and H. Ellis , and attended...
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Eric Ambler
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...of criticism, Bloody Murder, Julian Symons notes, "After World War I began, spy...express a left-wing point of view." Symons further observes, "Almost all of the...in the bombardment of an open town." Symons judges this "[h] is finest book of...
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Last Supper, The
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
...Testament and Liturgy Today. Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1990. Symons, Michael. "From Agape to Eucharist: Jesus' Meals and the Early Church." Food and Foodways 8, no. 1 (1999): 33 – 54. Michael Symons
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Cooking
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
...aspects, see particularly Harold McGee's On Food and Cooking; for information on its cultural and social aspects, see Michael Symons's A History of Cooks and Cooking. The Use of Heat When Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin assumed in The Physiology of Taste...
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Duse, Eleonora
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...repose. Among her notable vehicles were Magda , Ghosts , Rosmersholm , The Lady from the Sea , and three by her lover D'Annunzio: La Gioconda , Francesca da Rimini , and La Citta Morta . Biography: Eleonora Duse , Arthur Symons, 1926.
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detective fiction
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...believable studies of the murderous mind or of everyday situations into which murder erupts. This generation, which included Julian Symons and Michael Gilbert, produced many fine novels, but never rivalled in popularity the older generation. It was left to P...
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Willard, Josiah Flint
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
...experiences included study of political science at the University of Berlin, life in literary London as a friend of Arthur Symons, laboring on Tolstoy's Russian estate, and work for a railroad that needed advice on eliminating tramps. From these experiences...
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