Robert Lynd (1879–1949)
Author of Dr. Johnson and Company
About the Author
Image credit: Scan of back cover of Penguin Book No.503 (pub.1946). Photo attributed to Tangye Lean.
Works by Robert Lynd
Things one hears 4 copies
The Goldfish 3 copies
Both sides of the road, 2 copies
It's a Fine World 1 copy
Life's little oddities 1 copy
IN DEFENCE OF PINK 1 copy
John Donne 1 copy
I Tremble To Think 1 copy
Rain, Rain, go to Spain. 1 copy
The green man 1 copy
The Cockleshell 1 copy
Associated Works
America's Working Women: A Documentary History 1600 to the Present (1976) — Contributor, some editions — 156 copies
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Lynd, Robert
- Legal name
- Lynd, Robert Wilson
- Birthdate
- 1879-04-27
- Date of death
- 1949-10-06
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Queen's University, Belfast
- Occupations
- journalist
literary editor
essayist - Organizations
- Gaelic League
Daily News
News Chronicle
New Statesman - Awards and honors
- Silver Medal of the Royal Society of Literature (1928)
Gold Medal of The Sunday Times (1932) - Relationships
- Lynd, Sylvia (wife)
- Nationality
- Northern Ireland
- Birthplace
- Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
- Places of residence
- Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Hampstead, London, England, UK - Burial location
- Belfast City Cemetery, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
- Associated Place (for map)
- Northern Ireland, UK
Members
Reviews
When one gets tired of reading Robert Lynd, one gets tired of reading. A pleasure to escape to Lynd's collections after the deadly dull book-chatters of one's own day. Lynd was a bookman who said what he meant and meant what he said.
None of that critical clap-trap so despised (too strong a word, possibly) by Robertson Davies. Lynd had a relish for life that left book-chatters in the shade. Merriment with him was consistantly breaking through, and he was not afraid of ruffling the hair of such august critics as Thomas Stearns Eliot.
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Statistics
- Works
- 40
- Also by
- 7
- Members
- 176
- Popularity
- #121,981
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
- 3
- ISBNs
- 46
- Languages
- 1
