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Figures of Several Centuries
by Arthur SYMONS (1865 - 1945)Villon
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:
Casanova at Dux: An Unpublished Chapter of History (II) , Casanova at Dux: An Unpublished Chapter of History (III & IV) , A Note on the Genius of Thomas Hardy , Algernon Charles Swinburne (I) , Algernon Charles Swinburne (II) , Casanova at Dux: An Unpublished Chapter of History (I) , Charles Baudelaire , Coventry Patter (I) , Coventry Patter (II) , Dante Gabriel Rosetti , Edgar Allan Poe , Emily Brontë , George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) , John Donne (I) , John Donne (II) , 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