Figures of Several Centuries
Arthur Symons
34 chapters · 8 h 59 min · English
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Arthur Symons talks through the histories and works of poets, playwrights, scholars and scribes. He provides both personal experience and critical wonder to the worlds of his subjects; Donne, Ibsen, Baudelaire and Emily Brontë among them. Summary by Josh Kirsh.
Chapters
1 Saint Augustine 16 min 2 Charles Lamb (I & II) 21 min 3 Charles Lamb (III & IV) 14 min 4 Villon 4 min 5 Casanova at Dux: An Unpublished Chapter of History (I) 13 min 6 Casanova at Dux: An Unpublished Chapter of History (II) 21 min 7 Casanova at Dux: An Unpublished Chapter of History (III & IV) 19 min 8 John Donne (I) 22 min 9 John Donne (II) 24 min 10 Emily Brontë 9 min 11 Edgar Allan Poe 10 min 12 Thomas Lovell Beddoes 10 min 13 Gustave Flaubert 12 min 14 George Meredith as a Poet 14 min 15 Algernon Charles Swinburne (I) 23 min 16 Algernon Charles Swinburne (II) 39 min 17 Dante Gabriel Rosetti 7 min 18 A Note on the Genius of Thomas Hardy 11 min 19 Léon Cladel 9 min 20 Henrik Ibsen (I) 12 min 21 Henrik Ibsen (II) 15 min 22 Henrik Ibsen (III) 17 min 23 Henrik Ibsen (IV) 17 min 24 Joris-Karl Huysmans (I) 34 min 25 Two Symbolists 13 min 26 Joris-Karl Huysmans (II) 12 min 27 Charles Baudelaire 7 min 28 Walter Pater (I) 8 min 29 Walter Pater (II) 20 min 30 The Goncourts 21 min 31 Coventry Patter (I) 17 min 32 Coventry Patter (II) 17 min 33 Sarojini Naidu 15 min 34 Welsh Poetry 14 min
