# Old and New Masters

An audiobook by Robert Lynd, read by LibriVox volunteers (8 h 32 min, English).

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)

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## Chapters

1. 01 - Ch.1: Dostoevsky the Sensationalist (15:24): https://archive.org/download/old_new_masters_1212_librivox/oldandnewmasters_01_lynd_64kb.mp3
2. 02 - Ch.2: Jane Austen: Natural Historian (15:08): https://archive.org/download/old_new_masters_1212_librivox/oldandnewmasters_02_lynd_64kb.mp3
3. 03 - Ch.3.i - Mr G.K. Chesterton and Mr Hilaire Belloc: 1. The Heavenly Twins (15:24): https://archive.org/download/old_new_masters_1212_librivox/oldandnewmasters_03_lynd_64kb.mp3
4. 04 - Ch.3.ii - Mr G.K. Chesterton and Mr Hilaire Belloc : The Copiousness of Mr. Belloc (8:24): https://archive.org/download/old_new_masters_1212_librivox/oldandnewmasters_04_lynd_64kb.mp3
5. 05 - Ch.3.iii - Mr G.K. Chesterton and Mr Hilaire Belloc: 3. The Two Mr. Chestertons (14:07): https://archive.org/download/old_new_masters_1212_librivox/oldandnewmasters_05_lynd_64kb.mp3
6. 06 - Ch.4.i - Wordsworth: 1. His Personality and Genius (19:42): https://archive.org/download/old_new_masters_1212_librivox/oldandnewmasters_06_lynd_64kb.mp3
7. 07 - Ch.4.ii - Wordsworth: 2. His Politics (16:13): https://archive.org/download/old_new_masters_1212_librivox/oldandnewmasters_07_lynd_64kb.mp3
8. 08 - Ch.5.i - Keats: 1. The Biography (15:36): https://archive.org/download/old_new_masters_1212_librivox/oldandnewmasters_08_lynd_64kb.mp3
9. 09 - Ch.5.ii - Keats: 2. The Matthew Arnold View (10:21): https://archive.org/download/old_new_masters_1212_librivox/oldandnewmasters_09_lynd_64kb.mp3
10. 10 - Ch.6.i - Henry James: 1. The Novelist of Grains and Scruples (8:00): https://archive.org/download/old_new_masters_1212_librivox/oldandnewmasters_10_lynd_64kb.mp3
11. 11 - Ch.6.ii - Henry James: 2. The Artist at Work (17:21): https://archive.org/download/old_new_masters_1212_librivox/oldandnewmasters_11_lynd_64kb.mp3
12. 12 - Ch.6.iii - Henry James: 3. How He was Born Again (17:45): https://archive.org/download/old_new_masters_1212_librivox/oldandnewmasters_12_lynd_64kb.mp3
13. 13 - Ch.7 - Browning - The Poet of Love (15:43): https://archive.org/download/old_new_masters_1212_librivox/oldandnewmasters_13_lynd_64kb.mp3
14. 14 - Ch.8 - The Fame of J.M. Synge (8:29): https://archive.org/download/old_new_masters_1212_librivox/oldandnewmasters_14_lynd_64kb.mp3
15. 15 - Ch.9 - Villon: The Genius of the Tavern (14:42): https://archive.org/download/old_new_masters_1212_librivox/oldandnewmasters_15_lynd_64kb.mp3
16. 16 - Ch.10 - Pope (12:58): https://archive.org/download/old_new_masters_1212_librivox/oldandnewmasters_16_lynd_64kb.mp3
17. 17 - Ch. 11 - James Elroy Flecker (9:07): https://archive.org/download/old_new_masters_1212_librivox/oldandnewmasters_17_lynd_64kb.mp3
18. 18 - Ch.12 - Turgenev (12:15): https://archive.org/download/old_new_masters_1212_librivox/oldandnewmasters_18_lynd_64kb.mp3
19. 19 - Ch.13 - The Madness of Strindberg (17:22): https://archive.org/download/old_new_masters_1212_librivox/oldandnewmasters_19_lynd_64kb.mp3
20. 20 - Ch.14 - 'The Prince of French Poets' (16:03): https://archive.org/download/old_new_masters_1212_librivox/oldandnewmasters_20_lynd_64kb.mp3
21. 21 - Ch.15 - Rossetti and Ritual (10:03): https://archive.org/download/old_new_masters_1212_librivox/oldandnewmasters_21_lynd_64kb.mp3
22. 22 - Ch.16 - Mr Bernard Shaw (16:45): https://archive.org/download/old_new_masters_1212_librivox/oldandnewmasters_22_lynd_64kb.mp3
23. 23 - Ch.17 - Mr Masefield's Secret (19:13): https://archive.org/download/old_new_masters_1212_librivox/oldandnewmasters_23_lynd_64kb.mp3
24. 24 - Ch.18.i - Mr W.B. Yeats: 1. His Own Account of Himself (16:51): https://archive.org/download/old_new_masters_1212_librivox/oldandnewmasters_24_lynd_64kb.mp3
25. 25 - Ch.18.ii - Mr W.B. Yeats: 2. His Poetry (13:33): https://archive.org/download/old_new_masters_1212_librivox/oldandnewmasters_25_lynd_64kb.mp3
26. 26 - Ch.19 - Tchehov: The Perfect Story-Teller (12:46): https://archive.org/download/old_new_masters_1212_librivox/oldandnewmasters_26_lynd_64kb.mp3
27. 27 - Ch.20 - Lady Gregory (10:57): https://archive.org/download/old_new_masters_1212_librivox/oldandnewmasters_27_lynd_64kb.mp3
28. 28 - Ch.21 - Mr Cunningham Graham (7:18): https://archive.org/download/old_new_masters_1212_librivox/oldandnewmasters_28_lynd_64kb.mp3
29. 29 - Ch.22.i - Swinburne: 1. The Exotic Bird (9:08): https://archive.org/download/old_new_masters_1212_librivox/oldandnewmasters_29_lynd_64kb.mp3
30. 30 - Ch.22.ii - Swinburne: 2. Genius without Eyes (13:52): https://archive.org/download/old_new_masters_1212_librivox/oldandnewmasters_30_lynd_64kb.mp3
31. 31 - Ch.23 - The Work of T.M. Kettle (12:15): https://archive.org/download/old_new_masters_1212_librivox/oldandnewmasters_31_lynd_64kb.mp3
32. 32 - Ch.24 - Mr J.C. Squire (12:48): https://archive.org/download/old_new_masters_1212_librivox/oldandnewmasters_32_lynd_64kb.mp3
33. 33 - Ch.25.i - R. Joseph Conrad: 1. The Making of an Author (10:45): https://archive.org/download/old_new_masters_1212_librivox/oldandnewmasters_33_lynd_64kb.mp3
34. 34 - Ch.25.ii - R. Joseph Conrad: 2. Tales of Mystery (14:07): https://archive.org/download/old_new_masters_1212_librivox/oldandnewmasters_34_lynd_64kb.mp3
35. 35 - Ch.26.i - Mr Rudyard Kipling: 1. The Good Story-Teller (5:47): https://archive.org/download/old_new_masters_1212_librivox/oldandnewmasters_35_lynd_64kb.mp3
36. 36 - Ch.26.ii - Mr Rudyard Kipling: 2. The Poet of Life with a Capital Hell (11:34): https://archive.org/download/old_new_masters_1212_librivox/oldandnewmasters_36_lynd_64kb.mp3
37. 37 - Ch.27.i - Mr Thomas Hardy: 1. His Genius as a Poet (15:25): https://archive.org/download/old_new_masters_1212_librivox/oldandnewmasters_37_lynd_64kb.mp3
38. 38 - Ch.27.ii - Mr Thomas Hardy: 2. A Poet in Winter (18:20): https://archive.org/download/old_new_masters_1212_librivox/oldandnewmasters_38_lynd_64kb.mp3