Art of Letters
Robert Lynd
41 chapters · 9 h 31 min · English
Read by Larry Wilson, drandall, Graham Scott, thestorygirl, Kathleen Moore, Loraine Flegal and others
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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
Chapters
1 Dedication 1 min 2 Mr. Pepys 18 min 3 John Bunyan 13 min 4 Thomas Campion 15 min 5 John Donne Part I from beginning through "Who is my mistress:" 17 min 6 John Donne Part II from "One sort of readers" through "Anne Donne; Undone" 15 min 7 John Donne Part III from "His married life" to end 17 min 8 Horace Walpole Part I from beginning to "people in the room." 14 min 9 Horace Walpole Part II from "It is generally assumed" through "fashionable trifler" 14 min 10 Horace Walpole Part III from "Not that it is possible to represent him" to end 12 min 11 William Cowper Part I from beginning through "the creature he describes." 17 min 12 William Cowper Part II from "Cowper was not to be" through "both men.." 22 min 13 William Cowper Part III from "If we love Cowper" to end 14 min 14 A Note on Elizabethan Plays 12 min 15 The Office of the Poets 16 min 16 Edward Young as Critic 14 min 17 Gray and Collins 15 min 18 Aspects of Shelley: The Character Half-Comic 15 min 19 Aspects of Shelley: The Experimentalist 11 min 20 Aspects of Shelley: The Poet of Hope 11 min 21 The Wisdom of Coleridge: Coleridge as Critic 17 min 22 The Wisdom of Coleridge: Coleridge as a Talker 16 min 23 Tennyson: A Temporary Criticism 10 min 24 The Politics of Swift and Shakespeare: Swift 12 min 25 The Politics of Swift and Shakespeare: Shakespeare 14 min 26 The Personality of Morris 14 min 27 George Meredith: The Egoist 12 min 28 George Meredith: The Olympian Unbends 8 min 29 George Meredith: The Anglo-Irish Aspect 9 min 30 Oscar Wilde 10 min 31 Two English Critics: Mr. Saintsbury 16 min 32 Two English Critics: Mr. Gosse 13 min 33 An American Critic: Professor Irving Babbitt 15 min 34 Georgians: Mr. de la Mare 16 min 35 Georgians: The Group 8 min 36 Georgians: The Young Satirists 16 min 37 Labour of Authorship 14 min 38 The Theory of Poetry 14 min 39 The Critic as Destroyer 25 min 40 Book Reviewing Part I from beginning through "without ever being able to see it." 16 min 41 Book Reviewing Part II from "One of the chief virtues of the anecdote" to the end 16 min
