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Robert Lynd (1879 - 1949)

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)

Genre(s): Literary Criticism

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	01 - Ch.1: Dostoevsky the Sensationalist	chocmuse	00:15:24
Play 02	02 - Ch.2: Jane Austen: Natural Historian	Snapdragon	00:15:08
Play 03	03 - Ch.3.i - Mr G.K. Chesterton and Mr Hilaire Belloc: 1. The Heavenly Twins	Phil Chenevert	00:15:24
Play 04	04 - Ch.3.ii - Mr G.K. Chesterton and Mr Hilaire Belloc : The Copiousness of Mr. Belloc	Phil Chenevert	00:08:24
Play 05	05 - Ch.3.iii - Mr G.K. Chesterton and Mr Hilaire Belloc: 3. The Two Mr. Chestertons	TriciaG	00:14:07
Play 06	06 - Ch.4.i - Wordsworth: 1. His Personality and Genius	TriciaG	00:19:42
Play 07	07 - Ch.4.ii - Wordsworth: 2. His Politics	TriciaG	00:16:13
Play 08	08 - Ch.5.i - Keats: 1. The Biography	Vickie Ranz	00:15:36
Play 09	09 - Ch.5.ii - Keats: 2. The Matthew Arnold View	Amy Gramour	00:10:21
Play 10	10 - Ch.6.i - Henry James: 1. The Novelist of Grains and Scruples	chocmuse	00:08:00
Play 11	11 - Ch.6.ii - Henry James: 2. The Artist at Work	Bill Mosley	00:17:21
Play 12	12 - Ch.6.iii - Henry James: 3. How He was Born Again	Bill Mosley	00:17:45
Play 13	13 - Ch.7 - Browning - The Poet of Love	chocmuse	00:15:43
Play 14	14 - Ch.8 - The Fame of J.M. Synge	Lucretia B.	00:08:29
Play 15	15 - Ch.9 - Villon: The Genius of the Tavern	Arlene Joyce	00:14:42
Play 16	16 - Ch.10 - Pope	pekein	00:12:58
Play 17	17 - Ch. 11 - James Elroy Flecker	Amy Gramour	00:09:07
Play 18	18 - Ch.12 - Turgenev	pekein	00:12:15
Play 19	19 - Ch.13 - The Madness of Strindberg	Vickie Ranz	00:17:22
Play 20	20 - Ch.14 - 'The Prince of French Poets'	Arlene Joyce	00:16:03
Play 21	21 - Ch.15 - Rossetti and Ritual	Snapdragon	00:10:03
Play 22	22 - Ch.16 - Mr Bernard Shaw	Canby Ibarra	00:16:45
Play 23	23 - Ch.17 - Mr Masefield's Secret	Bill Mosley	00:19:13
Play 24	24 - Ch.18.i - Mr W.B. Yeats: 1. His Own Account of Himself	Timothy Ferguson	00:16:51
Play 25	25 - Ch.18.ii - Mr W.B. Yeats: 2. His Poetry	Timothy Ferguson	00:13:33
Play 26	26 - Ch.19 - Tchehov: The Perfect Story-Teller	pekein	00:12:46
Play 27	27 - Ch.20 - Lady Gregory	Snapdragon	00:10:57
Play 28	28 - Ch.21 - Mr Cunningham Graham	April Gonzales	00:07:18
Play 29	29 - Ch.22.i - Swinburne: 1. The Exotic Bird	Oracle4	00:09:08
Play 30	30 - Ch.22.ii - Swinburne: 2. Genius without Eyes	Oracle4	00:13:52
Play 31	31 - Ch.23 - The Work of T.M. Kettle	Oracle4	00:12:15
Play 32	32 - Ch.24 - Mr J.C. Squire	Lucretia B.	00:12:48
Play 33	33 - Ch.25.i - R. Joseph Conrad: 1. The Making of an Author	pekein	00:10:45
Play 34	34 - Ch.25.ii - R. Joseph Conrad: 2. Tales of Mystery	pekein	00:14:07
Play 35	35 - Ch.26.i - Mr Rudyard Kipling: 1. The Good Story-Teller	Snapdragon	00:05:47
Play 36	36 - Ch.26.ii - Mr Rudyard Kipling: 2. The Poet of Life with a Capital Hell	Snapdragon	00:11:34
Play 37	37 - Ch.27.i - Mr Thomas Hardy: 1. His Genius as a Poet	chocmuse	00:15:25
Play 38	38 - Ch.27.ii - Mr Thomas Hardy: 2. A Poet in Winter	CaprishaPage	00:18:20

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