Author Description

This Book Offers A Connected, Critical Survey Of The Public And Private Writing Of John Addington Symonds (bristol 1840 - Rome 1893), One Of Victorian Britain's Most Prolific Authors And A Major Figure In Queer History And Thought. Works Receiving Particular Attention Include An Introduction To The Study Of Dante (1872), Studies Of The Greek Poets (1873-76), The Renaissance In Italy (1875-86), Animi Figura (1882), Vagabunduli Libellus (1884), Life Of Michelangelo Buonarroti (1893), In The Key Of Blue (1893), And Sexual Inversion (in Collaboration With Havelock Ellis, Published Posthumously In 1897 But Quickly Censored), As Well As His Twin Essays, A Problem In Greek Ethics (privately Printed 1883) And A Problem In Modern Ethics (privately Printed 1891), The Latter Of Which Contains The First Appearance In English Print Of The Word Homosexual, A Recent Coinage Of German Sexology-- Provided By Publisher.