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Old and New Masters

Name: Old and New Masters
Author: Robert Lynd

Robert Lynd

Read by chocmuse, Snapdragon, Phil Chenevert, TriciaG, Vickie Ranz, Amy Gramour, Bill Mosley, Lucretia B., Arlene Joyce, pekein, Canby Ibarra, Timothy Ferguson, April Gonzales, Oracle4 and CaprishaPage · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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01 - Ch.1: Dostoevsky the Sensationalist (15:24)
02 - Ch.2: Jane Austen: Natural Historian (15:08)
03 - Ch.3.i - Mr G.K. Chesterton and Mr Hilaire Belloc: 1. The Heavenly Twins (15:24)
04 - Ch.3.ii - Mr G.K. Chesterton and Mr Hilaire Belloc : The Copiousness of Mr. Belloc (8:24)
05 - Ch.3.iii - Mr G.K. Chesterton and Mr Hilaire Belloc: 3. The Two Mr. Chestertons (14:07)
06 - Ch.4.i - Wordsworth: 1. His Personality and Genius (19:42)
07 - Ch.4.ii - Wordsworth: 2. His Politics (16:13)
08 - Ch.5.i - Keats: 1. The Biography (15:36)
09 - Ch.5.ii - Keats: 2. The Matthew Arnold View (10:21)
10 - Ch.6.i - Henry James: 1. The Novelist of Grains and Scruples (8:00)
11 - Ch.6.ii - Henry James: 2. The Artist at Work (17:21)
12 - Ch.6.iii - Henry James: 3. How He was Born Again (17:45)
13 - Ch.7 - Browning - The Poet of Love (15:43)
14 - Ch.8 - The Fame of J.M. Synge (8:29)
15 - Ch.9 - Villon: The Genius of the Tavern (14:42)
16 - Ch.10 - Pope (12:58)
17 - Ch. 11 - James Elroy Flecker (9:07)
18 - Ch.12 - Turgenev (12:15)
19 - Ch.13 - The Madness of Strindberg (17:22)
20 - Ch.14 - 'The Prince of French Poets' (16:03)
21 - Ch.15 - Rossetti and Ritual (10:03)
22 - Ch.16 - Mr Bernard Shaw (16:45)
23 - Ch.17 - Mr Masefield's Secret (19:13)
24 - Ch.18.i - Mr W.B. Yeats: 1. His Own Account of Himself (16:51)
25 - Ch.18.ii - Mr W.B. Yeats: 2. His Poetry (13:33)
26 - Ch.19 - Tchehov: The Perfect Story-Teller (12:46)
27 - Ch.20 - Lady Gregory (10:57)
28 - Ch.21 - Mr Cunningham Graham (7:18)
29 - Ch.22.i - Swinburne: 1. The Exotic Bird (9:08)
30 - Ch.22.ii - Swinburne: 2. Genius without Eyes (13:52)
31 - Ch.23 - The Work of T.M. Kettle (12:15)
32 - Ch.24 - Mr J.C. Squire (12:48)
33 - Ch.25.i - R. Joseph Conrad: 1. The Making of an Author (10:45)
34 - Ch.25.ii - R. Joseph Conrad: 2. Tales of Mystery (14:07)
35 - Ch.26.i - Mr Rudyard Kipling: 1. The Good Story-Teller (5:47)
36 - Ch.26.ii - Mr Rudyard Kipling: 2. The Poet of Life with a Capital Hell (11:34)
37 - Ch.27.i - Mr Thomas Hardy: 1. His Genius as a Poet (15:25)
38 - Ch.27.ii - Mr Thomas Hardy: 2. A Poet in Winter (18:20)