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British essayist and journalist

Basil de Sélincourt (19 August 1876 – 16 February 1966) was a British essayist and journalist.

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). Basil de Sélincourt's third wife was Julia Sanford Chapin

De Sélincourt died in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire in February 1966.

Works

  • Giotto (1905)
  • William Blake (1909)
  • Walt Whitman A Critical Study (1914)
  • The English Secret and Other Essays (1923)
  • 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

  1. "Basil de Selincourt (1877-1966), Journalist" UK National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 28 August 2013.
  2. "Basil DE SELINCOURT / Anne Douglas SEDGWICK" Retrieved 28 August 2013.
  3. "Family of Basil DE SELINCOURT and Julia Chapin ALSOP".
  4. "William Blake; by Basil De Selincourt" Hathi Trust Digital Library. Retrieved 28 August 2013.
  5. "THE ENGLISH SECRET, and Other Essays: By Basil de Selincourt" The Spectator. Retrieved 28 August 2013.

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