About this book
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
Chapters (40)
1Mr. Pepys
2John Bunyan
3Thomas Campion
4John Donne Part I from beginning through "Who is my mistress:"
5John Donne Part II from "One sort of readers" through "Anne Donne; Undone"
6John Donne Part III from "His married life" to end
7Horace Walpole Part I from beginning to "people in the room."
8Horace Walpole Part II from "It is generally assumed" through "fashionable trifler"
9Horace Walpole Part III from "Not that it is possible to represent him" to end
10William Cowper Part I from beginning through "the creature he describes.”
11William Cowper Part II from "Cowper was not to be" through "both men.."
12William Cowper Part III from "If we love Cowper" to end
13A Note on Elizabethan Plays
14The Office of the Poets
15Edward Young as Critic
16Gray and Collins
17Aspects of Shelley: The Character Half-Comic
18Aspects of Shelley: The Experimentalist
19Aspects of Shelley: The Poet of Hope
20The Wisdom of Coleridge: Coleridge as Critic
21The Wisdom of Coleridge: Coleridge as a Talker
22Tennyson: A Temporary Criticism
23The Politics of Swift and Shakespeare: Swift
24The Politics of Swift and Shakespeare: Shakespeare
25The Personality of Morris
26George Meredith: The Egoist
27George Meredith: The Olympian Unbends
28George Meredith: The Anglo-Irish Aspect
29Oscar Wilde
30Two English Critics: Mr. Saintsbury
31Two English Critics: Mr. Gosse
32An American Critic: Professor Irving Babbitt
33Georgians: Mr. de la Mare
34Georgians: The Group
35Georgians: The Young Satirists
36Labour of Authorship
37The Theory of Poetry
38The Critic as Destroyer
39Book Reviewing Part I from beginning through "without ever being able to see it."
40Book Reviewing Part II from "One of the chief virtues of the anecdote" to the end
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