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 – 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)
01 - Ch.1: Dostoevsky the Sensationalist02 - Ch.2: Jane Austen: Natural Historian03 - Ch.3.i - Mr G.K. Chesterton and Mr Hilaire Belloc: 1. The Heavenly Twins04 - Ch.3.ii - Mr G.K. Chesterton and Mr Hilaire Belloc : The Copiousness of Mr. Belloc05 - Ch.3.iii - Mr G.K. Chesterton and Mr Hilaire Belloc: 3. The Two Mr. Chestertons06 - Ch.4.i - Wordsworth: 1. His Personality and Genius07 - Ch.4.ii - Wordsworth: 2. His Politics08 - Ch.5.i - Keats: 1. The Biography09 - Ch.5.ii - Keats: 2. The Matthew Arnold View10 - Ch.6.i - Henry James: 1. The Novelist of Grains and Scruples11 - Ch.6.ii - Henry James: 2. The Artist at Work12 - Ch.6.iii - Henry James: 3. How He was Born Again13 - Ch.7 - Browning - The Poet of Love14 - Ch.8 - The Fame of J.M. Synge15 - Ch.9 - Villon: The Genius of the Tavern16 - Ch.10 - Pope17 - Ch. 11 - James Elroy Flecker18 - Ch.12 - Turgenev19 - Ch.13 - The Madness of Strindberg20 - Ch.14 - 'The Prince of French Poets'21 - Ch.15 - Rossetti and Ritual22 - Ch.16 - Mr Bernard Shaw23 - Ch.17 - Mr Masefield's Secret24 - Ch.18.i - Mr W.B. Yeats: 1. His Own Account of Himself25 - Ch.18.ii - Mr W.B. Yeats: 2. His Poetry26 - Ch.19 - Tchehov: The Perfect Story-Teller27 - Ch.20 - Lady Gregory28 - Ch.21 - Mr Cunningham Graham29 - Ch.22.i - Swinburne: 1. The Exotic Bird30 - Ch.22.ii - Swinburne: 2. Genius without Eyes31 - Ch.23 - The Work of T.M. Kettle32 - Ch.24 - Mr J.C. Squire33 - Ch.25.i - R. Joseph Conrad: 1. The Making of an Author34 - Ch.25.ii - R. Joseph Conrad: 2. Tales of Mystery35 - Ch.26.i - Mr Rudyard Kipling: 1. The Good Story-Teller36 - Ch.26.ii - Mr Rudyard Kipling: 2. The Poet of Life with a Capital Hell37 - Ch.27.i - Mr Thomas Hardy: 1. His Genius as a Poet38 - Ch.27.ii - Mr Thomas Hardy: 2. A Poet in Winter
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