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The Art of Letters

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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 (9 hr 31 min)

Chapters

Dedication

1:02

Read by Larry Wilson

Mr. Pepys

17:31

Read by drandall

John Bunyan

13:09

Read by Larry Wilson

Thomas Campion

14:36

Read by Graham Scott

John Donne Part I  from beginning through "Who is my mistress:"

17:18

Read by Graham Scott

John Donne Part II from "One sort of readers" through "Anne Donne; Undone"

14:45

Read by Graham Scott

John Donne Part III from "His married life" to end

16:52

Read by Graham Scott

Horace Walpole Part I from beginning to "people in the room."

13:46

Read by Graham Scott

Horace Walpole Part II from "It is generally assumed" through "fashionable trif…

13:54

Read by Graham Scott

Horace Walpole Part III from "Not that it is possible to represent him" to end

12:21

Read by Graham Scott

William Cowper Part I from beginning through "the creature he describes.”

16:58

Read by thestorygirl

William Cowper Part II from "Cowper was not to be" through  "both men.."

21:44

Read by thestorygirl

William Cowper Part III from "If we love Cowper" to end

13:44

Read by thestorygirl

A Note on Elizabethan Plays

11:33

Read by Kathleen Moore

The Office of the Poets

16:28

Read by Kathleen Moore

Edward Young as Critic

14:14

Read by Kathleen Moore

Gray and Collins

15:25

Read by Graham Scott

Aspects of Shelley: The Character Half-Comic

14:44

Read by Graham Scott

Aspects of Shelley: The Experimentalist

10:36

Read by Graham Scott

Aspects of Shelley: The Poet of Hope

10:44

Read by Graham Scott

The Wisdom of Coleridge: Coleridge as Critic

16:31

Read by Kathleen Moore

The Wisdom of Coleridge: Coleridge as a Talker

15:53

Read by Kathleen Moore

Tennyson: A Temporary Criticism

10:22

Read by Kathleen Moore

The Politics of Swift and Shakespeare:  Swift

11:55

Read by Graham Scott

The Politics of Swift and Shakespeare: Shakespeare

13:53

Read by Graham Scott

The Personality of Morris

14:19

Read by Graham Scott

George Meredith: The Egoist

11:40

Read by Loraine Flegal

George Meredith: The Olympian Unbends

8:29

Read by Loraine Flegal

George Meredith: The Anglo-Irish Aspect

8:51

Read by Amelia Chesley

Oscar Wilde

9:40

Read by Graham Scott

Two English Critics: Mr. Saintsbury

16:01

Read by Amelia Chesley

Two English Critics: Mr. Gosse

12:53

Read by drandall

An American Critic: Professor Irving Babbitt

14:33

Read by Gary Grenholm

Georgians: Mr. de la Mare

15:51

Read by Gary Grenholm

Georgians: The Group

8:01

Read by Gary Grenholm

Georgians: The Young Satirists

16:25

Read by Gary Grenholm

Labour of Authorship

14:28

Read by Amelia Chesley

The Theory of Poetry

13:34

Read by thestorygirl

The Critic as Destroyer

25:26

Read by drandall

Book Reviewing Part I from beginning through "without ever being able to see it…

15:33

Read by Amelia Chesley

Book Reviewing Part II from "One of the chief virtues of the anecdote" to the e…

15:34

Read by Amelia Chesley