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Title: The Art of Letters

Author: Robert Lynd

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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.