Basil De Selincourt

Basil de Sélincourt (1877–1966) 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).

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