Visions and Revisions: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Visions and Revisions, credited to John Cowper Powys, 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 Visions and Revisions by John Cowper Powys. Read in English by Keri Ford Powys presents a set of literary devotions of great figures in Literature who have obsessed him. He attempts not so much a reasoned critique or any attempt to categorise these figures but rather, as he describes in the Preface: "to give [himself] up, absolutely and completely, to the various visions and temperaments of these great dead artists." Powys delivered popular lectures throughout the United States and was able to hold audiences in rapt attention for hours while speaking about great literature and writers, this book from the earlier part of his writing career gives us a little glimpse into what those lectures must have been like. - Summary by Keri Ford

Recording facts

• Recording title: Visions and Revisions
• Author credits: John Cowper Powys
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 19
• Listed recording duration: 6:49:25

Catalogue topics

• dickens
• Shakespeare
• Nietzsche
• Goethe
• Charles Lamb
• shelley
• Keats
• Thomas Hardy

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 25:46
2. 01 - Rabelais — 19:25
3. 02 - Dante — 28:05
4. 03 - Shakespeare — 33:19
5. 04 - El Greco — 16:10
6. 05 - Milton — 25:20
7. 06 - Charles Lamb — 18:27
8. 07 - Dickens — 21:51
9. 08 - Goethe — 24:42
10. 09 - Matthew Arnold — 20:11
11. 10 - Shelley — 19:07
12. 11 - Keats — 20:20
13. 12 - Nietzsche — 23:26
14. 13 - Thomas Hardy — 17:20
15. 14 - Walter Pater — 17:34
16. 15 - Dostoievsky — 30:56
17. 16 - Edgar Allen Poe — 23:57
18. 17 - Walt Whitman — 14:12
19. 18 - Conclusion — 9:17

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