The Art of Letters

THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, THE ART OF LETTERS, BY ROBERT LYND
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THE ART OF LETTERS
BY
ROBERT LYND
NEW YORK 1921
TO J.C. SQUIRE My Dear Jack, You were godfather to a good many of the chapters in this book when they first appeared in the London Mercury, the New Statesman, and the British Review. Others of the chapters appeared in the Daily News, the Nation, the Athenæum, the Observer, and Everyman. Will
it embarrass you if I now present you with the entire brood in the name of a friendship that has lasted many midnights? Yours, Robert Lynd. Steyning, 30th August 1920
CONTENTS
I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XI. MR. PEPYS JOHN BUNYAN THOMAS CAMPION JOHN D ONNE H ORACE WALPOLE WILLIAM COWPER A N OTE ON ELIZABETHAN PLAYS THE O FFICE OF THE POETS EDWARD Y OUNG AS CRITIC G RAY AND COLLINS A SPECTS OF SHELLEY 1. THE CHARACTER H ALF-COMIC 2. THE EXPERIMENTALIST 3. THE POET OF H OPE THE WISDOM OF ...