Basil de Sélincourt

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)

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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