Basil de Sélincourt explained

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

• 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)

Notes and References

1. http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp50570/basil-de-selincourt "Basil de Selincourt (1877-1966), Journalist"
2. http://www.sedgwick.org/na/families/robert1613/ged/d0002/f0000546.html "Basil DE SELINCOURT / Anne Douglas SEDGWICK"
3. Web site: Family of Basil DE SELINCOURT and Julia Chapin ALSOP.
4. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000412614 "William Blake; by Basil De Selincourt"
5. http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/22nd-march-1924/22/the-english-secret-and-other-essays-by-basil-de-se "THE ENGLISH SECRET, and Other Essays: By Basil de Selincourt"