John Addington Symonds

Michael Robertson's Worshiping Walt, a fascinating recent study of his disciples, tells the story of John Addington Symonds, who pressed Whitman for years to acknowledge that this meant sex between men.

‘On Whitman’: The Real American 2010

His support for John Addington Symonds, one of the English followers of Walt Whitman and a pioneer of gay studies, is also suggestive of how creative and wide-ranging his educational efforts could be.

Henry Sidgwick Schultz, Barton 2006

In 1871, he married Charlotte Byron Symonds, sister of his close friend John Addington Symonds.

Thomas Hill Green Tyler, Colin 2006

The subject was John Addington Symonds, a friend and correspondent of Gosse, who had died two years earlier.

The Master Colm Tóibín 2004

Late in life on the other hand, when he was approached by John Addington Symonds, who was a European homosexual, and said, "Don't your homoerotic poems" -- the "Calamus" poems -- "don't they sort of imply this sexual relationship between men?"

Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography 1996

One of them -- one of the most famous books on the Renaissance, by John Addington Symonds, is called "The Age of the Desperates," which is a title I borrowed for my chapter on totalitarianism.

The Theme is Freedom: Religion, Politics, and the American Tradition 1995

In England, John Addington Symonds applied the biological analogy to the history of Elizabethan drama

EVOLUTION OF LITERATURE REN 1968

An English writer equally preoccupied with the scientific ideal, John Addington Symonds, also saw, like

LITERARY CRITICISM REN 1968

John Addington Symonds was a distinguished — even an important — writer who was also a homosexual.

A Hidden Life Haskell, Francis 1965

In your current issue you have published a review of Phyllis Grosskurth's biography of John Addington Symonds.

Corrigenda Cohen, Arthur A. 1965