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The Art of Letters

by Robert LYND (1879 - 1949)

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

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:
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 , 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 Donne Part III from "His married life" to end , Labour of Authorship , 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 , 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