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Title: The Art of Letters
Author: Robert Lynd
Release Date: October 16, 2004 [eBook #13764]
Language: English
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THE ART OF LETTERS
by
ROBERT LYND
New York
1921
TO J.C. SQUIRE
My Dear Jack,
You were godfather to a good many of the chapters in this book when they
first appeared in the _London Mercury_, the _New Statesman_, and the
_British Review_. Others of the chapters appeared in the _Daily News_, the
_Nation_, the _Athenaeum_, the _Observer_, and _Everyman_. Will it
embarrass you if I now present you with the entire brood in the name of a
friendship that has lasted many midnights?
Yours,
Robert Lynd.
Steyning,
30th August 1920
CONTENTS
I. MR. PEPYS
II. JOHN BUNYAN
III. THOMAS CAMPION
IV. JOHN DONNE
V. HORACE WALPOLE
VI. WILLIAM COWPER
VII. A NOTE ON ELIZABETHAN PLAYS
VIII. THE OFFICE OF THE POETS
IX. EDWARD YOUNG AS CRITIC
X. GRAY AND COLLINS
XI. ASPECTS OF SHELLEY
(1) THE CHARACTER HALF-COMIC
(2) THE EXPERIMENTALIST
(3) THE POET OF HOPE
XII. THE WISDOM OF COLERIDGE
(1) COLERIDGE AS CRITIC
(2) COLERIDGE AS A TALKER
XIII. TENNYSON: A TEMPORARY CRITICISM
XIV. THE POLITICS OF SWIFT AND SHAKESPEARE
(1) SWIFT
(2) SHAKESPEARE
XV. THE PERSONALITY OF MORRIS
XVI. GEORGE MEREDITH
(1) THE EGOIST
(2) THE OLYMPIAN UNBENDS
(3) THE ANGLO-IRISH ASPECT
XVII. OSCAR WILDE
XVIII. TWO ENGLISH CRITICS
(1) MR. SAINTSBURY
(2) MR. GOSSE
XIX. AN AMERICAN CRITIC: PROFESSOR IRVING BABBIT
XX. GEORGIANS
(1) MR. DE LA MARE
(2) THE GROUP
(3) THE YOUNG SATIRISTS
XXI. LABOUR OF AUTHORSHIP
XXII. THE THEORY OF POETRY
XXIII. THE CRITIC AS DESTROYER
XXIV. BOOK REVIEWING
THE ART OF LETTERS
I.--MR.
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