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Old and New Masters

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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) (8 hr 31 min)

Chapters

01 - Ch.1: Dostoevsky the Sensationalist

15:24

Read by chocmuse

02 - Ch.2: Jane Austen: Natural Historian

15:08

Read by Snapdragon

03 - Ch.3.i - Mr G.K. Chesterton and Mr Hilaire Belloc: 1. The Heavenly Twins

15:24

Read by Phil Chenevert

04 - Ch.3.ii - Mr G.K. Chesterton and Mr Hilaire Belloc : The Copiousness of Mr…

8:24

Read by Phil Chenevert

05 - Ch.3.iii - Mr G.K. Chesterton and Mr Hilaire Belloc: 3. The Two Mr. Cheste…

14:07

Read by TriciaG

06 - Ch.4.i - Wordsworth: 1. His Personality and Genius

19:42

Read by TriciaG

07 - Ch.4.ii - Wordsworth: 2. His Politics

16:13

Read by TriciaG

08 - Ch.5.i - Keats: 1. The Biography

15:36

Read by Vickie Ranz

09 - Ch.5.ii - Keats: 2. The Matthew Arnold View

10:21

Read by Amy Gramour

10 - Ch.6.i - Henry James: 1. The Novelist of Grains and Scruples

8:00

Read by chocmuse

11 - Ch.6.ii - Henry James: 2. The Artist at Work

17:21

Read by Bill Mosley

12 - Ch.6.iii - Henry James: 3. How He was Born Again

17:45

Read by Bill Mosley

13 - Ch.7 - Browning - The Poet of Love

15:43

Read by chocmuse

14 - Ch.8 - The Fame of J.M. Synge

8:29

Read by Lucretia B.

15 - Ch.9 - Villon: The Genius of the Tavern

14:42

Read by Arlene Joyce

16 - Ch.10 - Pope

12:58

Read by pekein

17 - Ch. 11 - James Elroy Flecker

9:07

Read by Amy Gramour

18 - Ch.12 - Turgenev

12:15

Read by pekein

19 - Ch.13 - The Madness of Strindberg

17:22

Read by Vickie Ranz

20 - Ch.14 - 'The Prince of French Poets'

16:03

Read by Arlene Joyce

21 - Ch.15 - Rossetti and Ritual

10:03

Read by Snapdragon

22 - Ch.16 - Mr Bernard Shaw

16:45

Read by Canby Ibarra

23 - Ch.17 - Mr Masefield's Secret

19:13

Read by Bill Mosley

24 - Ch.18.i - Mr W.B. Yeats: 1. His Own Account of Himself

16:51

Read by Timothy Ferguson

25 - Ch.18.ii - Mr W.B. Yeats: 2. His Poetry

13:33

Read by Timothy Ferguson

26 - Ch.19 - Tchehov: The Perfect Story-Teller

12:46

Read by pekein

27 - Ch.20 - Lady Gregory

10:57

Read by Snapdragon

28 - Ch.21 - Mr Cunningham Graham

7:18

Read by April Gonzales

29 - Ch.22.i - Swinburne: 1. The Exotic Bird

9:08

Read by Oracle4

30 - Ch.22.ii - Swinburne: 2. Genius without Eyes

13:52

Read by Oracle4

31 - Ch.23 - The Work of T.M. Kettle

12:15

Read by Oracle4

32 - Ch.24 - Mr J.C. Squire

12:48

Read by Lucretia B.

33 - Ch.25.i - R. Joseph Conrad: 1. The Making of an Author

10:45

Read by pekein

34 - Ch.25.ii - R. Joseph Conrad: 2. Tales of Mystery

14:07

Read by pekein

35 - Ch.26.i - Mr Rudyard Kipling: 1. The Good Story-Teller

5:47

Read by Snapdragon

36 - Ch.26.ii - Mr Rudyard Kipling: 2. The Poet of Life with a Capital Hell

11:34

Read by Snapdragon

37 - Ch.27.i - Mr Thomas Hardy: 1. His Genius as a Poet

15:25

Read by chocmuse

38 - Ch.27.ii - Mr Thomas Hardy: 2. A Poet in Winter

18:20

Read by CaprishaPage