The art of letters
By: by Robert Lynd.
Publisher: C. Scribner's sons
Published: 1921
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: English literature -- History and criticism; Criticism -- Great Britain
Table of contents: title: Mr. Pepys.-John Bunyan.-Thomas Campion.-John Donne.-Horace Walpole.-William Cowper.-A note on Elizabethan plays.-The office of the poets.-Edward Young as critic.-Gray and Collins.-Aspects of Shelley.-The wisdom of Coleridge.-Tennyson: a temporary criticism.-The politics of Swift and Shakespeare.-The personality of Morris.-George Meredith.-Oscar Wilde.-Two English critics: Mr. Saintsbury. Mr. Gossc.-An American critic: Professor Irving Babbit.-Georgians.-Labour of authorship.-The theory of poetry.-The critic as destroyer.-Book reviewing.