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Wilde, Oscar

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00 - Prologue and Introduction (5:45)
01 - Dinners and Dishes (4:50)
02 - A Modern Epic (5:48)
03 - Shakespeare on Scenery (8:23)
04 - A Bevy of Poets (9:15)
05 - Parnassus Versus Philology (2:39)
06 - Hamlet at the Lyceum (10:16)
07 - Two New Novels (May 15, 1885) (3:31)
08 - Henry the Fourth at Oxford (10:24)
09 - Modern Greek Poetry (4:17)
10 - Olivia at the Lyceum (8:49)
11 - As You Like It (7:35)
12 - A Handbook to Marriage (4:42)
13 - Half-Hours with the Worst Authors (5:47)
14 - One of Mr. Conway's Reminiscences (4:43)
15 - To Read Or Not to Read (3:38)
16 - 12th Night at Oxford (4:50)
17 - The Letters of a Great Woman (8:23)
18 - News from Parnassus (8:10)
19 - Some Novels (7:26)
20 - A Literary Pilgrim (5:44)
21 - Beranger in England (4:28)
22 - The Poetry of the People (6:00)
23 - The Cenci (6:02)
24 - Helena in Troas (8:04)
25 - Pleasing and Prattling (7:02)
26 - Balzac in English (9:00)
27 - Two New Novels (Sept. 16, 1880) (6:17)
28 - Ben Jonson (10:16)
29 - The Poets' Corner--I (6:17)
30 - A Ride Through Morrocco (5:34)
31 - The Children of the Poets (8:20)
32 - New Novels (9:17)
33 - A Politician's Poetry (7:15)
34 - Mr. Symonds' History of the Renaissance (8:38)
35 - A 'Jolly' Art Critic (12:52)
36 - A Sentimental Journey Through Literature (8:22)
37 - Common-Sense in Art (6:47)
38 - Miner and Minor Poets (10:00)
39 - A New Calendar (6:25)
40 - The Poets' Corner--II (8:08)
41 - Great Writers by Little Men (9:08)
42 - A New Book on Dickens (6:01)
43 Our Book-Shelf (7:37)
44 - A Cheap Edition of a Great Man (8:57)
45 - Mr. Morris's Odyssey (7:37)
46 - A Batch of Novels (9:07)
47 - Some Novels (12:15)
48 - The Poets' Corner--III (8:11)
49 - Mr. Pater's Imaginary Portraits (8:35)
50 - A Good Historical Novel (6:03)
51 - New Novels (5:45)
52 - Two Biographies of Keats (9:54)
53 - A Scotchman on Scottish Poetry (6:51)
54 - Literary and Other Notes--I (47:35)
55 - Mr. Mahaffy's New Book (14:29)
56 - Mr. Morris's Completion of the Odyssey (8:53)
57 - Sir Charles Bowen's Virgil (7:41)
58 - Literary and Other Notes--II (32:47)
59 - Aristotle at Afternoon Tea (10:19)
60 - Early Christian Art in Ireland (5:52)
61 - Literary and Other Notes--III (44:12)
62 - The Poets' Corner--IV (13:35)
63 - Literary and Other Notes--IV (34:23)
64 - The Poets' Corner--V (9:55)
65 - Venus or Victory (10:27)
66 - Literary and Other Notes--V (23:50)
67 - The Poets' Corner--VI (11:06)
68 - M. Caro on Georges Sand (9:52)
69 - The Poets' Corner--VII (11:55)
70 - A Fascinating Book (25:00)
71 - The Poets' Corner--VIII (12:55)
72 - A Note on Some Modern Poets (30:56)
73 - Sir Edwin Arnold's Last Volume (10:10)
74 - Australian Poets (12:36)
75 - Some Literary Notes--I (38:09)
76 - Poetry and Prison (9:36)
77 - Gospel According to Walt Whitman (18:40)
78 - The New President (7:55)
79 - Some Literary Notes--II (27:13)
80 - One of the Bibles of the World (8:34)
81 - Poetical Socialists (7:15)
82 - Mr. Brander Matthews' Essays (8:50)
83 - Some Literary Notes--III (25:04)
84 - Mr. William Morris's Last Book (10:05)
85 - Adam Lindsay Gordon (12:25)
86 - The Poets' Corner--IX (11:59)
87 - Some Literary Notes--IV (21:07)
88 - Mr Froude's Blue-Book (10:39)
89 - Some Literary Notes--V (22:35)
90 - Ouida's New Novel (10:29)
91 - Some Literary Notes--VI (22:37)
92 - A Thought-Reader's Novel (7:52)
93 - The Poets' Corner--X (11:13)
94 - Three New Poets (8:09)
95 - Three New Poets (8:27)
96 - A Chinese Sage (18:31)
97 - Mr. Pater's Last Volume (18:46)
98 - Primavera (5:46)
99 - Index of Authors and Books Reviewed (18:48)

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