Matthew Creasy is a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Glasgow. He has published essays and articles on the work of William Empson, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf. Arthur Symons lived in London, where he frequented the Rhymers' Club, a group of writers who met at the Cheshire Cheese in Fleet Street between 1891 and 1894. A friend of Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, and Oscar Wilde, he was an important influence on William Butler Yeats. He contributed to The Yellow Book and became editor of The Savoy. He died in 1945.