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Symonds was born at Bristol, England in 1840.
He was the only son of John Addington Symonds, M. D.
His mother, Harriet Symonds, was the eldest daughter of James Sykes of Leatherhead.
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Symonds was born at Bristol, England in 1840.
He was the only son of John Addington Symonds, M. D.
His mother, Harriet Symonds, was the eldest daughter of James Sykes of Leatherhead.
He was educated at Harrow and at Oxford, and he remained at the latter for some time as a tutor.
In 1858 he proceeded to Balliol as a commoner, but was elected to an exhibition in the following year.
In 1862 he had been elected to an open fellowship at Magdalen.
Returning to Clifton, he lectured there, both at the college and to ladies' schools, and the fruits of his work in this direction remain in his Introduction to the Study of Dante (1872) and his admirably vivid Studies of the Greek Poets (1873 - 1876).
Meanwhile he was occupied upon the work to which his talents and sympathies were especially attracted, his Renaissance in Italy, which appeared in seven volumes at intervals between 1875 and 1886.
His work, however, was again interrupted by illness, and this time in a more serious form.
In 1877 his life was in acute danger, and upon his removal to Davos Platz and subsequent recovery there it was felt that this was the only place where he was likely to be able to enjoy life.
From that time onward he practically made his home at Davos, and a charming picture of his life there will be found in Our Life in the Swiss Highlands (1891).
There he wrote most of his books: biographies of Shelley (1878), Sir Philip Sidney (1886), Ben Jonson (1886), and Michelangelo (1893), several volumes of poetry and of essays, and a fine translation of the Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini (1887).
There, too, he completed his study of the Renaissance, the work by which he will be longest remembered.
He had a passion for Italy, and for many years resided during the autumn in the house of his friend, Horatio F'.
Brown, on the Zattare, in Venice.
He died at Rome on the 19th of April 1893, and was buried close to Shelley. He left his papers and his autobiography in the hands of Mr Brown, who published in 1895 an excellent and comprehensive biography.
Two works from his pen, a volume of essays, In the Key of Blue, and a monograph on Wall Whitman, were published in the year of his death.
His activity was unbroken to the last.
In life Symonds was morbidly introspective, a Hamlet among modern men of letters, but with a capacity for action which Hamlet was denied.
Robert Louis Stevenson described I him, in the Opalstein of Talksand Talkers, as " the best of talkers,
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He met Janet Catherine North, whom, after a romantic betrothal in the mountains, he married at Hastings on the 10th of November 1864.