Karl Beckson
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Karl Beckson's Degrees
- PhD English Columbia University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Karl E. Beckson was an American educator, scholar, and author of numerous articles and sixteen books on British literature, culture, and authors including Oscar Wilde, Arthur Symons, and Henry Harland. Of particular interest to him was the late 19th century Symbolist Movement and its influence on late 19th century and early 20th century authors including James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, and Bernard Shaw. He co-authored, with Arthur Ganz, Literary Terms: A Dictionary, first published in 1960, and still available in its extensively revised 1990 third edition.
Karl Beckson's Published Works
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Published Works
- Literary Terms: A Dictionary (1961) (82)
- Oscar Wilde: the critical heritage (1970) (57)
- London in the 1890s: A Cultural History (1993) (43)
- A reader's guide to literary terms : a dictionary (1960) (33)
- Aesthetes and Decadents of the 1890's: An Anthology of British Poetry and Prose (1966) (24)
- Arthur Symons: A Life (1987) (21)
- The Oscar Wilde Encyclopedia (1998) (15)
- Henry Harland: His life and work (1978) (9)
- I can resist everything except temptation : and other quotations from Oscar Wilde (1996) (7)
- Arthur Symons: Selected Letters, 1880-1935 (1989) (6)
- The memoirs of Arthur Symons : life and art in the 1890s (6)
- : Into the Demon Universe: A Literary Exploration of Oscar Wilde. . Christopher S. Nassaar. (1974) (5)
- Symons, Browning, and the Development of the Modern Aesthetic (1970) (4)
- Wilde as poet (1997) (3)
- Poems and poems in prose (2000) (3)
- Tragedies ; Tristan and Iseult : a play in four acts (2009) (2)
- ELLA D'ARCY, AUBREY BEARDSLEY, AND THE CRISIS AT “ THE YELLOW BOOK ”: A NEW LETTER (1979) (2)
- Great theories in literary criticism (1963) (1)
- Arthur Symons: A Bibliography (2011) (1)
- A Review Essay: Perfect and Imperfect Wagnerites (1984) (1)
- The Tumbler of Water and the Cup of Wine : Symons, Yeats, and the Symbolist Movement (1990) (1)
- Narcissistic Reflections in a Wilde Mirror (1994) (0)
- R.A.SCOTT-JAMES on De Profundis, 1908 (2003) (0)
- 1894–5: THE SPHINX, AN IDEAL HUSBAND, and THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (1974) (0)
- Review in Daily Chronicle, 1890 : 30 June 1890, p. 7 (2003) (0)
- aware, for example, that, as Frank Kermode has written in Romantic Image, Symons was "crucial" in the development of Modernism, "always at the centre of his period and herald of its successor." (1992) (0)
- OSCAR WILDE'S CELEBRATED REMARK ON BERNARD SHAW (1994) (0)
- Selected works of Arthur Symons (1997) (0)
- The Shaping of Talent: 1880–9 (1989) (0)
- Achievement and Dissipation: 1890–6 (1989) (0)
- A study of Oscar Wilde ; A study of Walter Pater (1997) (0)
- OSCAR WILDE AND THE ‘ALMOST INHUMAN’ GOVERNOR OF READING GAOL (1983) (0)
- WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS in Harper’s Weekly, 1895 (2003) (0)
- WILDE’S response to Whistler’s charge, 1890 (2003) (0)
- 1881–8: POEMS, VERA; OR THE NIHILISTS, and THE HAPPY PRINCE AND OTHER TALES (1974) (0)
- 1892–3: LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN, SALOMÉ, A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE (1974) (0)
- 1895–8: The Silent Years and THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL (1974) (0)
- Symons' A Prelude to Life , Joyce's A Portrait, and the Religion of Art (1978) (0)
- A newly discovered lyric by Oscar Wilde (1995) (0)
- POEMS: June 1881 (1974) (0)
- Triumph and Disaster: 1897–1908 (1989) (0)
- 1890–1: THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, THE DUCHESS OF PADUA, INTENTIONS, LORD ARTHUR SAVILE’s CRIME AND OTHER STORIES, and A HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES (1974) (0)
- Notice in Scots Observer, 1890 : 5 July 1890, iv, 181 (2003) (0)
- Wilde’s Posthumous Reputation (1974) (0)
- Years of Decline: 1909–35 (1989) (0)
- Arthur Symons’s “Iseult Gonne”: A Previously Unpublished Memoir (1990) (0)
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