Basil de Sélincourt
Appearance
Basil de Sélincourt (19 August 1876 – 16 February 1966) was a British essayist and journalist.[1]
In 1902 he married the orientalist Beryl de Zoete, but the marriage failed, and in 1908 he married the writer Anne Douglas Sedgwick (1873–1935).[2] Basil de Sélincourt's third wife was Julia Sanford Chapin[3]
De Sélincourt died in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire in February 1966.
Works
[edit]- Giotto (1905)
- William Blake (1909)[4]
- Walt Whitman A Critical Study (1914)
- The English Secret and Other Essays (1923)[5]
- The Religion of the Spirit (1927)
- Selected Poems of William Blake (1927) editor
- Pomona or the Future of English (1928)
- Towards Peace and Other Essays Critical or Constructive (1932)
- Enjoyment of Music (Hogarth Press)
- Anne Douglas Sedgwick: A Portrait in Letters (1936)
References
[edit]- ^ "Basil de Selincourt (1877-1966), Journalist" UK National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 28 August 2013.
- ^ "Basil DE SELINCOURT / Anne Douglas SEDGWICK" Retrieved 28 August 2013.
- ^ "Family of Basil DE SELINCOURT and Julia Chapin ALSOP".
- ^ "William Blake; by Basil De Selincourt" Hathi Trust Digital Library. Retrieved 28 August 2013.
- ^ "THE ENGLISH SECRET, and Other Essays: By Basil de Selincourt" The Spectator. Retrieved 28 August 2013.