Produced by Ted Garvin, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net FIGURES OF SEVERAL CENTURIES BY ARTHUR SYMONS LONDON CONSTABLE AND COMPANY LTD 1917 _First published, December 1916._ _Reprinted, January, June 1917._ TO JOSEPH CONRAD WITH A FRIEND'S ADMIRATION CONTENTS PAGE SAINT AUGUSTINE 1 CHARLES LAMB 13 VILLON 37 CASANOVA AT DUX 41 JOHN DONNE 80 EMILY BRONTE 109 EDGAR ALLAN POE 115 THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES 122 GUSTAVE FLAUBERT 130 GEORGE MEREDITH AS A POET 141 ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE 153 DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI 201 A NOTE ON THE GENIUS OF THOMAS HARDY 207 LEON CLADEL 216 HENRIK IBSEN 222 JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS 268 TWO SYMBOLISTS 300 CHARLES BAUDELAIRE 310 WALTER PATER 316 THE GONCOURTS 336 COVENTRY PATMORE 351 SAROJINI NAIDU 376 WELSH POETRY 390 SAINT AUGUSTINE