According to Wikipedia, John Addington Symonds Jr. was an English poet and literary critic. A cultural historian, he was known for his work on the Renaissance, as well as numerous biographies of writers and artists. Although married with children, Symonds supported male love , which he believed could include pederastic as well as egalitarian relationships, referring to it as l'amour de l'impossible . He also wrote much poetry inspired by his same-sex affairs.
Studies in Sexual Inversion: Embodying a Study in Greek Ethics and a Study in Modern Ethics (7)
Our life in the Swiss highlands (6)
Dante : illustrations to the Divine comedy of Dante : and reproduced in phototype from the originals existing in the Laurentian Library of Florence (1)
The life of Benvenuto Cellini : with mezzotint portrait, and sixteen reproductions of Cellini's works (1)
Habit-Physiologically Considered: A Lecture Delivered May 9th, 1853, at the Bristol Literary and Philosophical Institution, by John Addington Symonds, M.D., Consulting Physician to the Bristol General Hospital, etc., etc. (1853) (0)
