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Figures of Several Centuries

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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. (8 hr 59 min)

Chapters

Saint Augustine

16:03

Read by Jim Locke

Charles Lamb (I & II)

20:47

Read by Melvin Lee

Charles Lamb (III & IV)

14:09

Read by Melvin Lee

Villon

4:22

Read by Sonia

Casanova at Dux: An Unpublished Chapter of History (I)

13:04

Read by Jim Locke

Casanova at Dux: An Unpublished Chapter of History (II)

20:32

Read by Jim Locke

Casanova at Dux: An Unpublished Chapter of History (III & IV)

19:24

Read by Jim Locke

John Donne (I)

22:02

Read by Melvin Lee

John Donne (II)

23:53

Read by Melvin Lee

Emily Brontë

8:42

Read by BettyB

Edgar Allan Poe

9:43

Read by BettyB

Thomas Lovell Beddoes

9:49

Read by Jim Rowland

Gustave Flaubert

11:54

Read by Kalynda

George Meredith as a Poet

13:59

Read by Jeff Moon

Algernon Charles Swinburne (I)

23:24

Read by Jim Locke

Algernon Charles Swinburne (II)

38:40

Read by Jim Locke

Dante Gabriel Rosetti

7:29

Read by Jim Rowland

A Note on the Genius of Thomas Hardy

10:58

Read by Jeff Moon

Léon Cladel

9:08

Read by Pamela Nagami

Henrik Ibsen (I)

12:02

Read by Adele Parry

Henrik Ibsen (II)

14:59

Read by Jim Locke

Henrik Ibsen (III)

17:25

Read by Jim Locke

Henrik Ibsen (IV)

17:04

Read by Jim Locke

Joris-Karl Huysmans (I)

34:27

Read by Sheila

Two Symbolists

13:25

Read by Jim Locke

Joris-Karl Huysmans (II)

12:09

Read by Jim Locke

Charles Baudelaire

6:31

Read by Sonia

Walter Pater (I)

8:29

Read by Sheila

Walter Pater (II)

20:30

Read by Sheila

The Goncourts

20:53

Read by Jim Locke

Coventry Patter (I)

17:01

Read by Kathleen Moore

Coventry Patter (II)

17:19

Read by Kathleen Moore

Sarojini Naidu

14:57

Read by Josh Kirsh

Welsh Poetry

14:06

Read by Charlotte Duckett