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LIFE Born in Wales , of Cornish parents, Symons was educated privately, spending much of his time in France and Italy . In 1884-1886 he edited four of Bernard Quaritch 's ''Shakespeare Quarto Facsimiles'', and in 1888-1889 seven plays of the ''" Henry Irving " Shakespeare ''. He became a member of the staff of the '' Athenaeum '' in 1891 , and of the '' Saturday Review '' in 1894 . His first volume of verse, ''Days and Nights'' ( 1889 ), consisted of dramatic monologues. His later verse is influenced by a close study of modern French writers, of Baudelaire and especially of Verlaine . He reflects French tendencies both in the subject-matter and style of his poems, in their eroticism and their vividness of description. Symons contributed poems and essays to the '' Yellow Book '', including an important piece which was later expanded into his book on ''The Symbolist Movement in Literature.'' In 1902 he made a selection from his earlier verse, published as ''Poems''. He translated from the Italian of Gabriele D'Annunzio ''The Dead City'' ( 1900 ) and ''The Child of Pleasure'' (1898), and from the French of Émile Verhaeren ''The Dawn'' (1898). To ''The Poems of Ernest Dowson '' (1905) he prefixed an essay on the deceased poet, who was a kind of English Verlaine and had many attractions for Symons. In 1909 Symons suffered a Psychotic breakdown, and published very little new work for a period of more than twenty years. VERSE
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