Basil de Sélincourt (19 August 1876 – 16 February 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). Basil de Sélincourt's third wife was Julia Sanford Chapin De Sélincourt died in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire in February 1966. 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) References External links 20th-century British writers 1876 births 1966 deaths British essayists British male journalists British male essayists 20th-century essayists 20th-century British male writers