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The Art of Letters

by Robert LYND (1879 - 1949)

Edward Young as Critic

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

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Listen next episodes of The Art of Letters:
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 , 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 , Labour of Authorship , Oscar Wilde , Tennyson: A Temporary Criticism , The Critic as Destroyer , 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 , Two English Critics: Mr. Gosse , Two English Critics: Mr. Saintsbury