Visions and Revisions
John Cowper Powys
Read 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 (6 hr 49 min)
Chapters
Preface | 25:46 | Read by Keri Ford |
Rabelais | 19:25 | Read by Keri Ford |
Dante | 28:05 | Read by Keri Ford |
Shakespeare | 33:19 | Read by Keri Ford |
El Greco | 16:10 | Read by Keri Ford |
Milton | 25:20 | Read by Keri Ford |
Charles Lamb | 18:27 | Read by Keri Ford |
Dickens | 21:51 | Read by Keri Ford |
Goethe | 24:42 | Read by Keri Ford |
Matthew Arnold | 20:11 | Read by Keri Ford |
Shelley | 19:07 | Read by Keri Ford |
Keats | 20:20 | Read by Keri Ford |
Nietzsche | 23:26 | Read by Keri Ford |
Thomas Hardy | 17:20 | Read by Keri Ford |
Walter Pater | 17:34 | Read by Keri Ford |
Dostoievsky | 30:56 | Read by Keri Ford |
Edgar Allen Poe | 23:57 | Read by Keri Ford |
Walt Whitman | 14:12 | Read by Keri Ford |
Conclusion | 9:17 | Read by Keri Ford |