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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.
- Chapters
- Dedication
- Mr. Pepys
- John Bunyan
- Thomas Campion
- John Donne Part I from beginning through "Who is my mistress:"
- John Donne Part II from "One sort of readers" through "Anne Donne; Undone"
- John Donne Part III from "His married life" to end
- Horace Walpole Part I from beginning to "people in the room."
- Horace Walpole Part II from "It is generally assumed" through "fashionable trifler"
- Horace Walpole Part III from "Not that it is possible to represent him" to end
- William Cowper Part I from beginning through "the creature he describes.”
- William Cowper Part II from "Cowper was not to be" through "both men.."
- William Cowper Part III from "If we love Cowper" to end
- A Note on Elizabethan Plays
- The Office of the Poets
- Edward Young as Critic
- Gray and Collins
- Aspects of Shelley: The Character Half-Comic
- Aspects of Shelley: The Experimentalist
- Aspects of Shelley: The Poet of Hope
- The Wisdom of Coleridge: Coleridge as Critic
- The Wisdom of Coleridge: Coleridge as a Talker
- Tennyson: A Temporary Criticism
- The Politics of Swift and Shakespeare: Swift
- The Politics of Swift and Shakespeare: Shakespeare
- The Personality of Morris
- George Meredith: The Egoist
- George Meredith: The Olympian Unbends
- George Meredith: The Anglo-Irish Aspect
- Oscar Wilde
- Two English Critics: Mr. Saintsbury
- Two English Critics: Mr. Gosse
- An American Critic: Professor Irving Babbitt
- Georgians: Mr. de la Mare
- Georgians: The Group
- Georgians: The Young Satirists
- Labour of Authorship
- The Theory of Poetry
- The Critic as Destroyer
- Book Reviewing Part I from beginning through "without ever being able to see it."
- Book Reviewing Part II from "One of the chief virtues of the anecdote" to the end