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Figures of Several Centuries

by Arthur Symons

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Read by Jim Locke, Melvin Lee, Sheila and others · 8 h 59 min · 34 parts

  1. Saint Augustine

    16:03

  2. Charles Lamb (I & II)

    20:47

  3. Charles Lamb (III & IV)

    14:09

  4. Villon

    4:22

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 Casanova at Dux: An Unpublished Chapter of History (I)

    13:04

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 Casanova at Dux: An Unpublished Chapter of History (II)

    20:32

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 Casanova at Dux: An Unpublished Chapter of History (III & IV)

    19:24

  8. John Donne (I)

    22:02

  9. John Donne (II)

    23:53

  10. Emily Brontë

    8:42

  11. Edgar Allan Poe

    9:43

  12. Thomas Lovell Beddoes

    9:49

  13. Gustave Flaubert

    11:54

  14. George Meredith as a Poet

    13:59

  15. Algernon Charles Swinburne (I)

    23:24

  16. Algernon Charles Swinburne (II)

    38:40

  17. Dante Gabriel Rosetti

    7:29

  18. A Note on the Genius of Thomas Hardy

    10:58

  19. Léon Cladel

    9:08

  20. Henrik Ibsen (I)

    12:02

  21. Henrik Ibsen (II)

    14:59

  22. Henrik Ibsen (III)

    17:25

  23. Henrik Ibsen (IV)

    17:04

  24. Joris-Karl Huysmans (I)

    34:27

  25. Two Symbolists

    13:25

  26. Joris-Karl Huysmans (II)

    12:09

  27. Charles Baudelaire

    6:31

  28. Walter Pater (I)

    8:29

  29. Walter Pater (II)

    20:30

  30. The Goncourts

    20:53

  31. Coventry Patter (I)

    17:01

  32. Coventry Patter (II)

    17:19

  33. Sarojini Naidu

    14:57

  34. Welsh Poetry

    14:06

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Arthur Symons gathered twenty-three essays here, ranging from Saint Augustine and Villon to Ibsen, Huysmans, and the Indian poet Sarojini Naidu. The subjects are mostly writers, and the approach is never merely academic. Symons reads Donne as an intellectual adventurer who became a poet almost by accident, calls Villon the first modern poet, and devotes a long chapter to Casanova's last years as librarian at Dux, drawn from six cases of manuscripts he examined at the Bohemian castle in 1899. Emily Brontë, Poe, Beddoes, Flaubert, Swinburne, Rossetti, Hardy, Baudelaire, and Walter Pater each get a turn. Published in 1916, the book shows the critic who introduced English readers to French Symbolism at his most assured. Symons wrote about literature by temperament and sympathy rather than by system, and the essays stay readable because of it.

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Arthur Symons

Arthur Symons, born in Wales, was a poet, critic, editor, and an important interpreter of European symbolism for English readers. The Art of Aubrey Beardsley combines Symons's personal recollection of the illustrator with a critical account of Beardsley's rapidly changing visual style.

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Book facts

First published
1916
Reading time
About 6 hours
Pages
206
Language
English
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Jim Locke, Melvin Lee, Sheila and others