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[Manuscript] 1888 March, "Prayer of Cleanthus the Stoic" / John Addington Symonds.
No full textThe card upon which the poem is transcribed is headed, "Prayer of Cleanthes the Stoic" and is signed at the bottom with the date and "Davos" (Switzerland). See also Margaret Symonds\u27 letter to the recipient of her father\u27s translation of this poem.The translation reads, "Lead--me God, and thou fate the daughter of God/ Whithersoever I am by you appointed to go:/ For I will follow unreluctant; and yet, should I refuse,/ Through Cowardice or sin upgrown in me, none the less shall I surely follow." Symonds is known as the author of _Studies of the Greek Poets_ (1873) as well as his translations and books about Italian sculptors Michelangelo and Benvenuto Cellini. Symonds also authored books about Greek ethics, Shakespeare, and Dante, and coauthored _Sexual Inversion_ (1897) with Havelock Ellis, and _Our life in the Swiss highlands_ (1892) with his daughter Margaret
Clithon (Pictoneritina) barbei Symonds & Pacaud, 2010, sp. nov.
No full textClithon (Pictoneritina) barbei sp. nov. (Fig. 3 a–c) Type material. Holotype NHM PI TG 26448 (M. Symonds coll., Fig. 3 a–c). One paratype NHM PI TG 26449 (M. Symonds coll.), one paratype MNHN A 33473 (Ledon coll.). All from type locality. Stratum typicum. Early Eocene, Ypresian (Sparnacian), “Sands of Pourcy”. Locus typicus. Pourcy, Marne, France. 49 ˚09ˏ 43 ˝ N 3 ˚ 54 ˏ 21 ˝ E. Derivatio nominis. Named after Gérard Barbe of Champillon, Marne, France, a palaeontologist, who is familiar with the fossils of Pourcy, and who assisted the senior author with the collection of material from there, in which the types of this taxon were found. Diagnosis. A small semiglobose Pictoneritina; spire depressed, septum with poorly defined teeth, colour pattern of three dark spiral bands on light background. Description. Shell small for subgenus, consisting of about 2.25 whorls, semiglobose with spire depressed. Protoconch small, approximately 0.2 mm wide, smooth, almost spherical. Teleoconch about 2.25 whorls, evenly convex, increasing rapidly in size; surface glossy, smooth. Suture sharp, well defined. Colour pattern of 3 dark spiral bands on light background, highest immediately below suture, varying in width but usually narrower than spaces between them. Aperture oblique, semicircular. Septum convex, smooth. Septum edge slightly concave in centre; teeth consist of one rather broad, rounded, indistinct tooth at about one third of distance from adapical end of septum, 1 to 3 denticulations abapical to it, also indistinct. Outer lip evenly rounded, thin, smooth within. Apertural tooth low, curved ridge below abapical end of septum. Size. Holotype: height 3.2 mm, width 3.2 mm. Remarks. Clithon (P.) barbei is similar in size and shape to Clithon (P.) nucleus Deshayes, 1825 from the Cuisian of Cuise-la-Motte, Oise, France, although in that species the spire is usually wholly or partially covered by the following whorl. The colour pattern in C. (P.) nucleus consists of dark, wavy, transverse lines on a light background, in some specimens the transverse lines are interrupted by two or three pale spiral bands, while C. (P.) barbei has a colour pattern of 3 dark spiral bands on a light background. Range and distribution. Only known from type locality.Published as part of Symonds, Malcolm Francis & Pacaud, Jean-Michel, 2010, New species of Neritidae (Neritimorpha) from the Ypresian and Bartonian of the Paris and Basse-Loire Basins, France, pp. 55-68 in Zootaxa 2606 on pages 59-60, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19772
Accelerated Partner Therapy: optimising an inter-actional contact tracing intervention to reduce chlamydia reinfection
No full textBackground: A number of interventions have evolved to assist with contact tracing for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) yet absence of theoretical support, detailed description and specific intervention components result in heterogeneous delivery with ambiguous outcomes. This paper reports a process to optimise Accelerated Partner Therapy (APT), a UK partner notification intervention, to reduce chlamydia reinfection.
Method: Varied data sources involved an analysis of behavioural elements of existing contact tracing interventions identified through systematic review, a behavioural analysis of videos of APT, a behaviourally informed analysis of qualitative data from 56 patients/public, 30 healthcare professionals (HCPs) and expert input including the use of the APEASE criteria in specifying content for the intervention manual. This involved the theoretical domains framework (TDF), the Behaviour Change Wheel (BCW) and the Behaviour Change Technique Taxonomy (BCTT) to specify potentially useful ways of optimising APT that would enhance engagement
Results: The APT intervention was characterised as interactional; involving HCPs, index patients and sex partners. It involved four main delivery steps and eight behavioural domains. Varied barriers and facilitators to engagement with APT were identified and further analysed to optimise APT content. The APEASE criteria were used to select and prioritise content/intervention functions for inclusion in the intervention manual, training materials and all information material to support the delivery of APT for HCP and index patients (videos, leaflets etc.)
Discussion The approach outlined here aimed to behaviourally inform APT in order to provide a transparent way of optimising the intervention by specifying its active components and theorising its key mechanisms. We include a supplementary file with the final intervention manual
Teacher Attitudes Towards the Representation of Homosexuality in Film and Television: A New Self-report Questionnaire
No full textThe aims of the present research were to evaluate the preliminary psychometric properties of a new measure for evaluating teachers’ attitudes towards the representation of homosexuality in film and television, and to explore the association between moral disengagement and teachers’ negative attitudes towards homosexual representations. Participants were 241 Italian primary and secondary school teachers. The new self-report measure comprises 14 items or 8 items (brief version) scored on a 5-point Likert scale. Teachers completed three instruments: the new measure created to capture participants’ social and emotional evaluations of homosexuality in film and television, the latent and manifest prejudice scale, and the Italian moral disengagement scale. Exploratory factor analysis of the new measure suggested a single factor. The results demonstrated that the measure had satisfactory construct and convergent validity and reliability. Finally, we identified how teachers’ dehumanization of victims and euphemistic labelling were positively associated with their negative attitudes towards representations of homosexuality. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature
Letter from John Addington Symonds to A.H. Bullen
No full textAutograph letter written by John Addington Symonds to A.H. Bullen. Transcription included.Am Hof
Davos Platz
Oct: 15 1882
Dear Mr. Bullen
It gives me sincere pleasure to hear that you are satisfied with the few lines I wrote by way of testimonial.
I am amused to see you thought I desiderate a literal version into English of all Meleager. What I really meant was that I hoped Mr. Beeching would edit a complete Greek text, whatever he did about translations.
I feel so good a book might be made of Meleager that I am most desirous to have it well considered by Mr. Beeching. Personally, I should welcome a complete Greek text as one part of the work, [p. 2] & as a second part Mr. Beeching’s own translations with perhaps in addition a selection from earlier versions both in Latin perhaps also Itn. [Italian] & French & English. My belief is that a very choice volume could be got up in this way. And if Mr. Beeching feels capable of furnishing critical notes, the whole might make an addition to classical scholarship for polite readers which in the good old days of church preferment would soon have advanced him from a curacy to a deanery at least – if not a Bishopric!
[p. 3] but of course in these regenerate times a curate may dread too familiar contact with so naif an author as Meleager. Mr. Beeching’s name has already reached me through my nephew St. Loe Strachey, who has spoken to me of him as a writer of good verses.
If I could be of any assistance to Mr. Beeching in the matter of indicating translations of Meleager, I would gladly put my knowledge at his disposal. But I fear that I do not know more than is to be gathered from Jacobo, Wellesley’s Anthologia Polyglotta (a very valuable book), & Dübner. [p. 4] I wonder whether he has happened to read two imitations of Meleager (the one a close paraphrase, the other a variation on a tema) printed by me in my volume of verse “New & Old” pp: 67 & 60? I have generally shrunk from the task of translating Meleager (though I have done some half dozen perhaps of the epigrams) & have felt it more possible to render some thing of his manner in a paraphrastic imitation. There is, I think, a fair scope in modern literature for such rehandling of ancient themes – witness B Jonson’s use of Philostratus in “Drink to me only.” [p. 5] However, I will pull up: for I find myself writing a letter to Mr. Beeching under pretence of one to you!
Thank you for your encouragement on the topic of Elizabethan Studies & for the valuable suggestion about men like Massinger & Shirley. On that point I wholly am at one with you. If I engage in this work, I shall certainly drive at bringing their merits into relief. One advantage I shall have gained by shelving the studies I prepared so far back as 1864-6, is that I can come now with [p.6] mature & more independent judgment to the task. To the student Lamb’s influence is [illegible scrawl]. We pass our first initiation into the great mystery of Elizb. Dr. literature under Lamb’s guidance. He would be a rare adventurous youth who should stand up against so much sympathy fine critical insight & erudition mingled as there was in Lamb. But calmer years & wider studies, with all that has since been contributed by men like Swinburne, Ward & the [p. 7] antiquarian societies, by editors like yourself & Collins & the younger Hazlitt, enable a critic to stand above his subject in serener mood. Ward’s History renders, of course, a systematic treatment now superfluous. For aesthetic criticism some of the playwrights, espy Ford & Marlowe, are pretty well exhausted. My doubt is whether there is really room left for me to do any thing worth doing. I had, however, the same doubt when I look up (very casually) the Greek Poets. [p.8] The appreciation of those studies both in England & America showed me that my mode of treatment met a certain want. And perhaps I ought to have faith
Curiously enough, I never heard before of Swinburne’s & Gosse’s project. That makes considerable difference. I think if their scheme were in progress, I should shelve my own again & this time finally for ever. In such work the collaboration of two such men would be sure to produce a wall [canceled] monument of unapproachable perfection. Very
Truly yours
J A Symonds
How can we increase notification of exposure to STIs between gay and bisexual men?: intervention development using stakeholder engagement, qualitative methods and behavioural science
No full textCOUNTER-INTUITIVE BEHAVIOR IN A PROBLEM OF ELASTIC-PLASTIC BEAM DYNAMICS
No full textMechanicsSCI(E)69ARTICLE3517-5225
Ecstasy or justice? The sexual author and the law, 1855-1885
Get PDFJohn Addington Symonds (1840-1893) was a British poet, critic and biographer who wrote what may be the first manifesto in English calling for legal equality for homosexual men, "A Problem in Modern Ethics: Being an Inquiry into the Phenomenon of Sexual Inversion, Addressed Especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists" (1895). "Ecstasy or Justice? The Sexual Author and the Law, 1855-1885," explores Symonds' work in the context of his epistolary relationship with the American poet Walt Whitman, whose influential 1860 edition of "Leaves of Grass," with its frank treatment of homoerotic themes, inspired a generation of British writers, feminists and activists, in addition to provoking Symonds himself into more direct, though textually veiled and coded, engagement with homoerotic themes. "Ecstasy or Justice? The Sexual Author and the Law, 1855-1885," also examines the impacts of laws criminalizing publications with sexual themes, and laws criminalizing same-sex offences, as background for analysis of certain texts by Symonds' contemporaries, including Algernon Charles Swinburne, Dante Gabriel and William Michael Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, the painter Simeon Solomon, the activists for women's rights Josephine Butler and Annie Besant, and later, the young Oscar Wilde. The thesis addresses ways in which these "sexual dissidents'' work may show certain impacts of pressure from the passage of the Obscene Publications Act and other laws managing privacy and speech in Britain in the 19th century. It also makes the case that pressures of this kind on literary texts in Britain may have affected outcomes for writers such as Whitman eventually in the United States as well, as the passage of the Comstock Act in 1873 led to comparable restrictions on literary freedoms for American writers, and helped lead to the withdrawal of a print run of "Leaves of Grass." The thesis argues that we can't fully assess the work of many writers in Britain after 1857 and in America after 1873, without taking into account the possible impacts on literary texts of restrictions on freedoms of speech and on private sexuality
The history of the adventures of Joseph Andrews, and his friend Mr. Abraham Adams. [electronic resource] : Written in imitation of the manner of Cervantes, author of Don Quixotte. By Henry Fielding. In two volumes.
No full textTwo vols in one at C, but pagination continuous or separate in vol. 2? Verify punctuation of "Quixotte" determining if "By Henry" should have "B" or "b". Date suggested in view of another Symonds edition dated 1794 (t133828)Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from Cambridge University Library
Going beyond 'regular and casual': development of a classification of sexual partner types to enhance partner notification for STIs.
Get PDFOBJECTIVES: To develop a classification of sexual partner types for use in partner notification (PN) for STIs. METHODS: A four-step process: (1) an iterative synthesis of five sources of evidence: scoping review of social and health sciences literature on partner types; analysis of relationship types in dating apps; systematic review of PN intervention content; and review of PN guidelines; qualitative interviews with public, patients and health professionals to generate an initial comprehensive classification; (2) multidisciplinary clinical expert consultation to revise the classification; (3) piloting of the revised classification in sexual health clinics during a randomised controlled trial of PN; (4) application of the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF) to identify index patients' willingness to engage in PN for each partner type. RESULTS: Five main partner types emerged from the evidence synthesis and consultation: 'established partner', 'new partner', 'occasional partner', 'one-off partner' and 'sex worker'. The types differed across several dimensions, including likely perceptions of sexual exclusivity, likelihood of sex reoccurring between index patient and sex partner. Sexual health professionals found the classification easy to operationalise. During the trial, they assigned all 3288 partners described by 2223 index patients to a category. The TDF analysis suggested that the partner types might be associated with different risks of STI reinfection, onward transmission and index patients' engagement with PN. CONCLUSIONS: We developed an evidence-informed, useable classification of five sexual partner types to underpin PN practice and other STI prevention interventions. Analysis of biomedical, psychological and social factors that distinguish different partner types shows how each could warrant a tailored PN approach. This classification could facilitate the use of partner-centred outcomes. Additional studies are needed to determine the utility of the classification to improve measurement of the impact of PN strategies and help focus resources
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