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The Art of Letters

The Art of Letters

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Number of Chapters: 41

Length: 09 hours and 31 minutes

Language: English

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

Dedication (Larry Wilson)

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Dedication (Larry Wilson)
Mr. Pepys (drandall)
John Bunyan (Larry Wilson)
Thomas Campion (Graham Scott)
John Donne Part I  from beginning through "Who is my mistress:" (Graham Scott)
John Donne Part II from "One sort of readers" through "Anne Donne; Undone" (Graham Scott)
John Donne Part III from "His married life" to end (Graham Scott)
Horace Walpole Part I from beginning to "people in the room." (Graham Scott)
Horace Walpole Part II from "It is generally assumed" through "fashionable trifler" (Graham Scott)
Horace Walpole Part III from "Not that it is possible to represent him" to end (Graham Scott)
William Cowper Part I from beginning through "the creature he describes.” (thestorygirl)
William Cowper Part II from "Cowper was not to be" through  "both men.." (thestorygirl)
William Cowper Part III from "If we love Cowper" to end (thestorygirl)
A Note on Elizabethan Plays (Kathleen Moore)
The Office of the Poets (Kathleen Moore)
Edward Young as Critic (Kathleen Moore)
Gray and Collins (Graham Scott)
Aspects of Shelley: The Character Half-Comic (Graham Scott)
Aspects of Shelley: The Experimentalist (Graham Scott)
Aspects of Shelley: The Poet of Hope (Graham Scott)
The Wisdom of Coleridge: Coleridge as Critic (Kathleen Moore)
The Wisdom of Coleridge: Coleridge as a Talker (Kathleen Moore)
Tennyson: A Temporary Criticism (Kathleen Moore)
The Politics of Swift and Shakespeare:  Swift (Graham Scott)
The Politics of Swift and Shakespeare: Shakespeare (Graham Scott)
The Personality of Morris (Graham Scott)
George Meredith: The Egoist (Loraine Flegal)
George Meredith: The Olympian Unbends (Loraine Flegal)
George Meredith: The Anglo-Irish Aspect (Amelia Chesley)
Oscar Wilde (Graham Scott)
Two English Critics: Mr. Saintsbury (Amelia Chesley)
Two English Critics: Mr. Gosse (drandall)
An American Critic: Professor Irving Babbitt (Gary Grenholm)
Georgians: Mr. de la Mare (Gary Grenholm)
Georgians: The Group (Gary Grenholm)
Georgians: The Young Satirists (Gary Grenholm)
Labour of Authorship (Amelia Chesley)
The Theory of Poetry (thestorygirl)
The Critic as Destroyer (drandall)
Book Reviewing Part I from beginning through "without ever being able to see it." (Amelia Chesley)
Book Reviewing Part II from "One of the chief virtues of the anecdote" to the end (Amelia Chesley)
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