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The Art of Letters

The Art of Letters

by Robert LYND (1879 - 1949)

From the pen of the Irish poet and essayist, Robert Lynd, comes a collection of humorous and satirical essay on the literary scene of his day with critiques of poets and and poetry, ranging from Pepys to Walter de la Mare. He even examines criticism itself. - Summary by Larry Wilson


A Note on Elizabethan Plays

An American Critic: Professor Irving Babbitt

Aspects of Shelley: The Character Half-Comic

Aspects of Shelley: The Experimentalist

Aspects of Shelley: The Poet of Hope

Book Reviewing Part I from beginning through "without ever being able to see it."

Book Reviewing Part II from "One of the chief virtues of the anecdote" to the end

Dedication

Edward Young as Critic

George Meredith: The Anglo-Irish Aspect

George Meredith: The Egoist

George Meredith: The Olympian Unbends

Georgians: Mr. de la Mare

Georgians: The Group

Georgians: The Young Satirists

Gray and Collins

Horace Walpole Part I from beginning to "people in the room."

Horace Walpole Part II from "It is generally assumed" through "fashionable trifler"

Horace Walpole Part III from "Not that it is possible to represent him" to end

John Bunyan

John Donne Part I  from beginning through "Who is my mistress:"

John Donne Part II from "One sort of readers" through "Anne Donne; Undone"

John Donne Part III from "His married life" to end

Labour of Authorship

Mr. Pepys

Oscar Wilde

Tennyson: A Temporary Criticism

The Critic as Destroyer

The Office of the Poets

The Personality of Morris

The Politics of Swift and Shakespeare: Shakespeare

The Politics of Swift and Shakespeare:  Swift

The Theory of Poetry

The Wisdom of Coleridge: Coleridge as a Talker

The Wisdom of Coleridge: Coleridge as Critic

Thomas Campion

Two English Critics: Mr. Gosse

Two English Critics: Mr. Saintsbury

William Cowper Part I from beginning through "the creature he describes.”

William Cowper Part II from "Cowper was not to be" through  "both men.."

William Cowper Part III from "If we love Cowper" to end