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Art of Letters

Name: Art of Letters
Author: Robert Lynd

Robert Lynd

Read by Larry Wilson, drandall, Graham Scott, thestorygirl, Kathleen Moore, Loraine Flegal, Amelia Chesley and Gary Grenholm · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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Dedication (1:02)
Mr. Pepys (17:31)
John Bunyan (13:09)
Thomas Campion (14:36)
John Donne Part I from beginning through "Who is my mistress:" (17:18)
John Donne Part II from "One sort of readers" through "Anne Donne; Undone" (14:45)
John Donne Part III from "His married life" to end (16:52)
Horace Walpole Part I from beginning to "people in the room." (13:46)
Horace Walpole Part II from "It is generally assumed" through "fashionable trifler" (13:54)
Horace Walpole Part III from "Not that it is possible to represent him" to end (12:21)
William Cowper Part I from beginning through "the creature he describes.” (16:58)
William Cowper Part II from "Cowper was not to be" through "both men.." (21:44)
William Cowper Part III from "If we love Cowper" to end (13:44)
A Note on Elizabethan Plays (11:33)
The Office of the Poets (16:28)
Edward Young as Critic (14:14)
Gray and Collins (15:25)
Aspects of Shelley: The Character Half-Comic (14:44)
Aspects of Shelley: The Experimentalist (10:36)
Aspects of Shelley: The Poet of Hope (10:44)
The Wisdom of Coleridge: Coleridge as Critic (16:31)
The Wisdom of Coleridge: Coleridge as a Talker (15:53)
Tennyson: A Temporary Criticism (10:22)
The Politics of Swift and Shakespeare: Swift (11:55)
The Politics of Swift and Shakespeare: Shakespeare (13:53)
The Personality of Morris (14:19)
George Meredith: The Egoist (11:40)
George Meredith: The Olympian Unbends (8:29)
George Meredith: The Anglo-Irish Aspect (8:51)
Oscar Wilde (9:40)
Two English Critics: Mr. Saintsbury (16:01)
Two English Critics: Mr. Gosse (12:53)
An American Critic: Professor Irving Babbitt (14:33)
Georgians: Mr. de la Mare (15:51)
Georgians: The Group (8:01)
Georgians: The Young Satirists (16:25)
Labour of Authorship (14:28)
The Theory of Poetry (13:34)
The Critic as Destroyer (25:26)
Book Reviewing Part I from beginning through "without ever being able to see it." (15:33)
Book Reviewing Part II from "One of the chief virtues of the anecdote" to the end (15:34)