Figures of Several Centuries

by Arthur SYMONS (1865 - 1945)

John Donne (II)

Figures of Several Centuries

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.


Listen next episodes of Figures of Several Centuries:
A Note on the Genius of Thomas Hardy , Algernon Charles Swinburne (I) , Algernon Charles Swinburne (II) , Charles Baudelaire , Coventry Patter (I) , Coventry Patter (II) , Dante Gabriel Rosetti , Edgar Allan Poe , Emily Brontë , George Meredith as a Poet , Gustave Flaubert , Henrik Ibsen (I) , Henrik Ibsen (II) , Henrik Ibsen (III) , Henrik Ibsen (IV) , Joris-Karl Huysmans (I) , Joris-Karl Huysmans (II) , Léon Cladel , Sarojini Naidu , The Goncourts , Thomas Lovell Beddoes , Two Symbolists , Walter Pater (I) , Walter Pater (II) , Welsh Poetry