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Figures of Several Centuries

Name: Figures of Several Centuries
Author: Arthur Symons

Arthur Symons

Read by Jim Locke, Melvin Lee, Sonia, BettyB, Jim Rowland, Kalynda, Jeff Moon, Pamela Nagami, Adele Parry, Sheila, Kathleen Moore, Josh Kirsh and Charlotte Duckett · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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Saint Augustine (16:03)
Charles Lamb (I & II) (20:47)
Charles Lamb (III & IV) (14:09)
Villon (4:22)
Casanova at Dux: An Unpublished Chapter of History (I) (13:04)
Casanova at Dux: An Unpublished Chapter of History (II) (20:32)
Casanova at Dux: An Unpublished Chapter of History (III & IV) (19:24)
John Donne (I) (22:02)
John Donne (II) (23:53)
Emily Brontë (8:42)
Edgar Allan Poe (9:43)
Thomas Lovell Beddoes (9:49)
Gustave Flaubert (11:54)
George Meredith as a Poet (13:59)
Algernon Charles Swinburne (I) (23:24)
Algernon Charles Swinburne (II) (38:40)
Dante Gabriel Rosetti (7:29)
A Note on the Genius of Thomas Hardy (10:58)
Léon Cladel (9:08)
Henrik Ibsen (I) (12:02)
Henrik Ibsen (II) (14:59)
Henrik Ibsen (III) (17:25)
Henrik Ibsen (IV) (17:04)
Joris-Karl Huysmans (I) (34:27)
Two Symbolists (13:25)
Joris-Karl Huysmans (II) (12:09)
Charles Baudelaire (6:31)
Walter Pater (I) (8:29)
Walter Pater (II) (20:30)
The Goncourts (20:53)
Coventry Patter (I) (17:01)
Coventry Patter (II) (17:19)
Sarojini Naidu (14:57)
Welsh Poetry (14:06)