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]

  1. [Mr. Pepys]
  2. [John Bunyan]
  3. [Thomas Campion]
  4. [John Donne]
  5. [Horace Walpole]
  6. [William Cowper]
  7. [A Note on Elizabethan Plays]
  8. [The Office of the Poets]
  9. [Edward Young as Critic]
  10. [Gray and Collins]
  11. [Aspects of Shelley]
    1. [The Character Half-Comic]
    2. [The Experimentalist]
    3. [The Poet of Hope]
  12. [The Wisdom of Coleridge]
    1. [Coleridge as Critic]
    2. [Coleridge as a Talker]
  13. [Tennyson: A Temporary Criticism]
  14. [The Politics of Swift and Shakespeare]
    1. [Swift]
    2. [Shakespeare]
  15. [The Personality of Morris]
  16. [George Meredith]
    1. [The Egoist]
    2. [The Olympian Unbends]
    3. [The Anglo-Irish Aspect]
  17. [Oscar Wilde]
  18. [Two English Critics]
    1. [Mr. Saintsbury]
    2. [Mr. Gosse]
  19. [An American Critic: Professor Irving Babbitt]
  20. [Georgians]
    1. [Mr. de la Mare]
    2. [The Group]
    3. [The Young Satirists]
  21. [Labour of Authorship]
  22. [The Theory of Poetry]
  23. [The Critic as Destroyer]
  24. [Book Reviewing]

The Art of Letters