Old and New Masters
Robert Lynd
38 chapters · 8 h 32 min · English
Read by chocmuse, Snapdragon, Phil Chenevert, TriciaG, Vickie Ranz, Amy Gramour and others
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Jane Austen, WB Yeats, Chesterton, Shaw... these are personal and intelligent short essays on a selection of great (and great-ish) writers: some well known, and some a bit more obscure to the average reader today. Robert Lynd (1879 to 1949) is best known as a literary essayist and Irish nationalist. He published many essays, all written in an easy, conversational style. Lynd was an essayist after the manner of Charles Lamb, and deserves to be better known. A complete list of his works is available at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wilson_Lynd (summary by chocmuse)
Chapters
1 01 - Ch.1: Dostoevsky the Sensationalist 15 min 2 02 - Ch.2: Jane Austen: Natural Historian 15 min 3 03 - Ch.3.i - Mr G.K. Chesterton and Mr Hilaire Belloc: 1. The Heavenly Twins 15 min 4 04 - Ch.3.ii - Mr G.K. Chesterton and Mr Hilaire Belloc : The Copiousness of Mr. Belloc 8 min 5 05 - Ch.3.iii - Mr G.K. Chesterton and Mr Hilaire Belloc: 3. The Two Mr. Chestertons 14 min 6 06 - Ch.4.i - Wordsworth: 1. His Personality and Genius 20 min 7 07 - Ch.4.ii - Wordsworth: 2. His Politics 16 min 8 08 - Ch.5.i - Keats: 1. The Biography 16 min 9 09 - Ch.5.ii - Keats: 2. The Matthew Arnold View 10 min 10 10 - Ch.6.i - Henry James: 1. The Novelist of Grains and Scruples 8 min 11 11 - Ch.6.ii - Henry James: 2. The Artist at Work 17 min 12 12 - Ch.6.iii - Henry James: 3. How He was Born Again 18 min 13 13 - Ch.7 - Browning - The Poet of Love 16 min 14 14 - Ch.8 - The Fame of J.M. Synge 8 min 15 15 - Ch.9 - Villon: The Genius of the Tavern 15 min 16 16 - Ch.10 - Pope 13 min 17 17 - Ch. 11 - James Elroy Flecker 9 min 18 18 - Ch.12 - Turgenev 12 min 19 19 - Ch.13 - The Madness of Strindberg 17 min 20 20 - Ch.14 - 'The Prince of French Poets' 16 min 21 21 - Ch.15 - Rossetti and Ritual 10 min 22 22 - Ch.16 - Mr Bernard Shaw 17 min 23 23 - Ch.17 - Mr Masefield's Secret 19 min 24 24 - Ch.18.i - Mr W.B. Yeats: 1. His Own Account of Himself 17 min 25 25 - Ch.18.ii - Mr W.B. Yeats: 2. His Poetry 14 min 26 26 - Ch.19 - Tchehov: The Perfect Story-Teller 13 min 27 27 - Ch.20 - Lady Gregory 11 min 28 28 - Ch.21 - Mr Cunningham Graham 7 min 29 29 - Ch.22.i - Swinburne: 1. The Exotic Bird 9 min 30 30 - Ch.22.ii - Swinburne: 2. Genius without Eyes 14 min 31 31 - Ch.23 - The Work of T.M. Kettle 12 min 32 32 - Ch.24 - Mr J.C. Squire 13 min 33 33 - Ch.25.i - R. Joseph Conrad: 1. The Making of an Author 11 min 34 34 - Ch.25.ii - R. Joseph Conrad: 2. Tales of Mystery 14 min 35 35 - Ch.26.i - Mr Rudyard Kipling: 1. The Good Story-Teller 6 min 36 36 - Ch.26.ii - Mr Rudyard Kipling: 2. The Poet of Life with a Capital Hell 12 min 37 37 - Ch.27.i - Mr Thomas Hardy: 1. His Genius as a Poet 15 min 38 38 - Ch.27.ii - Mr Thomas Hardy: 2. A Poet in Winter 18 min
