Six lectures on literature
Charles Harold Herford
Lu par Phil Benson
C. H. Herford was Professor of English Literature at the Victoria University of Manchester in era when public lectures were published in pamphlet form. The six lectures in this collection span Herford's career at the University during the turbulent first two decades of the twentieth century. Taking a historical view, Herford covers a wide range of eras and writers in an exploration of the roots of English literature. - Summary by Phil Benson (6 hr 18 min)
Chapitres
| The permanent power of English poetry (1902) | 55:20 | Lu par Phil Benson |
| The bearing of English studies on the national life (1910) | 53:52 | Lu par Phil Benson |
| Is there a poetic view of the world (1916) part 1 | 1:04:33 | Lu par Phil Benson |
| Is there a poetic view of the world (1916) part 2 | 32:18 | Lu par Phil Benson |
| The poetry of Lucretius (1917) | 1:03:32 | Lu par Phil Benson |
| Norse myth in English poetry (1919) | 1:07:19 | Lu par Phil Benson |
| The normality of Shakespeare illustrated in his treatment of love and marriage … | 41:51 | Lu par Phil Benson |
Critiques
A LibriVox Listener
With dense texts it's especially important to have a lively narrator to help he reader understand them. It's unfortunate this did not happen with this one.