Cities and Sea-Coasts and Islands


Arthur Symons's collection of twenty-six essays on travel in Spain, life in London, and sojourns among islands and sea-coasts of France, England, and Ireland first appeared in the United States in 1919. His verbal portraits of the places he visited, whether bold and colorful or sensitive and merely suggestive, are as intriguing and interesting today as when he first wrote them.
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Cities and Sea-Coasts and Islands


Arthur Symons's collection of twenty-six essays on travel in Spain, life in London, and sojourns among islands and sea-coasts of France, England, and Ireland first appeared in the United States in 1919. His verbal portraits of the places he visited, whether bold and colorful or sensitive and merely suggestive, are as intriguing and interesting today as when he first wrote them.
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Cities and Sea-Coasts and Islands

Cities and Sea-Coasts and Islands

by Arthur Symons
Cities and Sea-Coasts and Islands

Cities and Sea-Coasts and Islands

by Arthur Symons

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Arthur Symons's collection of twenty-six essays on travel in Spain, life in London, and sojourns among islands and sea-coasts of France, England, and Ireland first appeared in the United States in 1919. His verbal portraits of the places he visited, whether bold and colorful or sensitive and merely suggestive, are as intriguing and interesting today as when he first wrote them.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780810160545
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Publication date: 05/13/1998
Series: Marlboro Travel
Edition description: 1
Pages: 353
Product dimensions: 5.25(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Arthur William Symons (28 February 1865 – 22 January 1945), was a British poet, critic and magazine editor.

Table of Contents



I. Spain
Seville
The Painters of Seville
Domenico Theotocopuli: A Study at Toledo
The Poetry of Santa Teresa and San Juan de la Cruz
Campoamor
A Spanish Poet: Núñez de Arce
Moorish Secrets in Spain
Valencia
Tarragona
Cordova
Montserrat
Cadiz
A Bull Fight at Valencia
Alicante 
A Spanish Music-Hall

II. London: A Book of Aspects

III. Sea-Coasts and Islands
Dieppe, 1895
A Valley in Cornwall
At Land's End
Cornish Sketches
In a Northern Bay
Winchelsea: An Aspect
The Islands of Aran
In Sligo: Rosses Point and Glencar
From a Castle in Ireland
Dover Cliffs
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