Figures of Several Centuries: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Figures of Several Centuries, credited to Arthur Symons, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Figures of Several Centuries by Arthur Symons. Read in English by Jim Locke; Melvin Lee; Sonia; BettyB; Jim Rowland; Kalynda; jmoon110; Pamela Nagami; Adele Parry; Sheila; Kathleen Moore; Josh Kirsh; Charlotte Duckett 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.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Figures of Several Centuries
• Author credits: Arthur Symons
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 34
• Listed recording duration: 8:59:19

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• French
• history
• biography
• John Donne
• Emily Bronte
• welsh poetry
• henrik ibsen

Opening tracks: first 24 of 34

1. 01 - Saint Augustine — 16:03
2. 02 - Charles Lamb (I & II) — 20:46
3. 03 - Charles Lamb (III & IV) — 14:09
4. 04 - Villon — 4:22
5. 05 - Casanova at Dux: An Unpublished Chapter of History (I) — 13:04
6. 06 - Casanova at Dux: An Unpublished Chapter of History (II) — 20:32
7. 07 - Casanova at Dux: An Unpublished Chapter of History (III & IV) — 19:24
8. 08 - John Donne (I) — 22:02
9. 09 - John Donne (II) — 23:53
10. 10 - Emily Brontë — 8:42
11. 11 - Edgar Allan Poe — 9:43
12. 12 - Thomas Lovell Beddoes — 9:49
13. 13 - Gustave Flaubert — 11:54
14. 14 - George Meredith as a Poet — 13:59
15. 15 - Algernon Charles Swinburne (I) — 23:24
16. 16 - Algernon Charles Swinburne (II) — 38:40
17. 17 - Dante Gabriel Rosetti — 7:29
18. 18 - A Note on the Genius of Thomas Hardy — 10:58
19. 19 - Léon Cladel — 9:08
20. 20 - Henrik Ibsen (I) — 12:02
21. 21 - Henrik Ibsen (II) — 14:58
22. 22 - Henrik Ibsen (III) — 17:25
23. 23 - Henrik Ibsen (IV) — 17:04
24. 24 - Joris-Karl Huysmans (I) — 34:27

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