Thank you very much for Job. It is a beautiful copy. I have compared it with my father's, & find the proofs wh you have given me far finer than his impressions."Symonds, Letters, 1:506 (360) So John Addington Symonds wrote in a letter to his good friend Henry Graham Dakyns in November of 1864.  At … Continue reading A Case for “Job”

In his Memoirs, Symonds describes his discovery of Plato–specifically the Phaedrus and the Symposium–as “the revelation I had been waiting for, the consecration of a long-cherished idealism. It was just as though the voice of my own soul spoke to me through Plato…” (Memoirs, 152). This refers specifically to the speeches made on love–particularly, “Greek love” between two … Continue reading Symonds, Harrow, and Plato: Different Forms of Love