The Escorial. A Prize Poem. Recited in the Theatre, Oxford, June 20, 1860.
"Robed with dark pines I saw beneath me spread Escorial's cloistered palace of the dead": First edition of John Addington Symonds' first published work The Escorial: A Prize Poem
The Escorial. A Prize Poem. Recited in the Theatre, Oxford, June 20, 1860.
SYMONDS, John Addington.
$175.00
Item Number: 125596
Oxford: T. and G. Shrimpton, 1860.
First edition of Symonds’ first book, published when he was 20 years old. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition.
English cultural historian and poet John Addington Symonds was known for his work on the Renaissance, as well as numerous biographies of writers and artists. As a student at Oxford, Symonds "gained brilliant distinction, obtaining a double first class in Classics, and the Newdigate Prize for a poem on 'The Escorial'." (DNB).
