Visions and Revisions


Read by Keri Ford

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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