Six lectures on literature: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Six lectures on literature, credited to Charles Harold Herford, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Six lectures on literature by Charles Harold Herford. Read in English by Phil Benson C. H. Herford was Professor of English Literature at the Victoria University of Manchester in era when public lectures were published in pamphlet form. The six lectures in this collection span Herford's career at the University during the turbulent first two decades of the twentieth century. Taking a historical view, Herford covers a wide range of eras and writers in an exploration of the roots of English literature. - Summary by Phil Benson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Six lectures on literature
• Author credits: Charles Harold Herford
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 7
• Listed recording duration: 6:18:45

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• English literature
• Manchester
• norse myth

Track guide

1. 01 - The permanent power of English poetry (1902) — 55:20
2. 02 - The bearing of English studies on the national life (1910) — 53:52
3. 03 - Is there a poetic view of the world (1916) part 1 — 1:04:33
4. 04 - Is there a poetic view of the world (1916) part 2 — 32:18
5. 05 - The poetry of Lucretius (1917) — 1:03:32
6. 06 - Norse myth in English poetry (1919) — 1:07:19
7. 07 - The normality of Shakespeare illustrated in his treatment of love and marriage (1920) — 41:51

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