Basil de Sélincourt
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Basil de Sélincourt (19 August 1876 – 16 February 1966) was a British essayist and journalist.<ref>"Basil de Selincourt (1877–1966), Journalist" UK National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 28 August 2013.</ref>
In 1900, de Sélincourt was an Acting Professor of Greek at the University of Sydney<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and from 1900-1901 served as President of the Sydney University Union<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> (now the University of Sydney Union).
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).<ref>"Basil DE SELINCOURT / Anne Douglas SEDGWICK" Retrieved 28 August 2013.</ref> Basil de Sélincourt's third wife was Julia Sanford Chapin<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
De Sélincourt died in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire in February 1966.
Works
- Giotto (1905)
- William Blake (1909)<ref>"William Blake; by Basil De Selincourt" Hathi Trust Digital Library. Retrieved 28 August 2013.</ref>
- Walt Whitman A Critical Study (1914)
- The English Secret and Other Essays (1923)<ref>"THE ENGLISH SECRET, and Other Essays: By Basil de Selincourt" The Spectator. Retrieved 28 August 2013.</ref>
- 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)