Figures of Several Centuries

A 1916 collection of literary essays by Arthur Symons, examining writers from several centuries, including Saint Augustine, Villon, Donne, Emily Bronte, Poe, Flaubert, Ibsen, Baudelaire, and Pater, with reflections on their lives, works, and autobiographical writing.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

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Other Non-Fiction›Essays and criticism›Critical essays on writers and the arts›English and American

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Bibliophiles›Other Non-Fiction›Essays and criticism›Critical essays on writers and the arts›English and American