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Arthur Symons talks through the histories and works of poets, playwrights, scholars and scribes. He provides both personal experience and critical wonder to the worlds of his subjects; Donne, Ibsen, Baudelaire and Emily Brontë among them
- Chapters
- Saint Augustine
- Charles Lamb (I & II)
- Charles Lamb (III & IV)
- Villon
- Casanova at Dux: An Unpublished Chapter of History (I)
- Casanova at Dux: An Unpublished Chapter of History (II)
- Casanova at Dux: An Unpublished Chapter of History (III & IV)
- John Donne (I)
- John Donne (II)
- Emily Brontë
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes
- Gustave Flaubert
- George Meredith as a Poet
- Algernon Charles Swinburne (I)
- Algernon Charles Swinburne (II)
- Dante Gabriel Rosetti
- A Note on the Genius of Thomas Hardy
- Léon Cladel
- Henrik Ibsen (I)
- Henrik Ibsen (II)
- Henrik Ibsen (III)
- Henrik Ibsen (IV)
- Joris-Karl Huysmans (I)
- Two Symbolists
- Joris-Karl Huysmans (II)
- Charles Baudelaire
- Walter Pater (I)
- Walter Pater (II)
- The Goncourts
- Coventry Patter (I)
- Coventry Patter (II)
- Sarojini Naidu
- Welsh Poetry