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- British poet, writer and critic Arthur William Symons was born on 2/28/1865, in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshore, England. His education was "off and on", as he described it, but he managed to work his way into the London literary journalism scene in the 1890s. He was a member of The Rhymers Club, a collection of poets that included William Butler Yeats, and was a contributor to "The Yellow Book". He was made the editor of a new magazine, "The Savoy", in 1896.
Symons was acquainted with many of the top French writers and poets of the era, including Paul Verlaine, Stéphane Mallarmé and Joris-Karl Huysmans. He was a champion of the so-called "Symbolist Movement", and in 1899 published a book, "The Symbolist Movement in Literature", which was a major influence on such writers as Yeats and T.S. Eliot. His own poetry, in such works as "Days and Nights" (1889) and "London NIghts" (1895), was geared more toward the urban life he gravitated towards rather than the pastoral romantic settings of many of his contemporaries.
Symons suffered a nervous breakdown in 1908, and it took him almost two years to recover from it. From 1910-30 he produced mostly books and writings on travel, literary criticism and translations of other authors' works. He died in Wittersham, Kent, England, on 1/22/1945. - Del Elliott was born on 22 December 1878 in Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for The Desert Song (1929). He died on 22 January 1945 in San Francisco, California, USA.
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Virginia Folque de Castro e Almeida Pimentel Sequeira e Abreu (her full name) was a a rich cosmopolitan educated lady who played a key role in the propagation of Portuguese literature and art abroad, particularly in Paris where she lived for years as of 1918, notably by translating into French works by [error], Luís Vaz de Camões and Garcia de Resende Born into an aristocratic family of Lisbon in 1874, Virginia de Castro Almeida soon showed a special liking for the arts and literature in general. Her curious mind led her to write children's books. Always a lover of modernity, she even attempted the adventure of cinema; in 1922, she founded Fortuna Films in Lisbon but produced only two films, A Sereia de Pedra (1923) and Os Olhos da Alma (1923) as success did not come, making the experience short-lived. Virginia returned to Paris for a time, pursuing her literary mission. She died in Lisbon two decades later.- Else Lasker-Schüler was born on 11 February 1869 in Elberfeld [now Wuppertal], Germany. She was a writer, known for Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me (2003), Summer (2007) and Haus Kummerveldt (2023). She was married to Georg Lewin and Berthold Lasker. She died on 22 January 1945 in Jerusalem, Palestine [now Israel].