Robert Wilson Lynd - Definition and Overview

Robert Wilson Lynd (1879 - 1949) was a British writer, an urbane literary essayist and strong Irish nationalist. He was born and educated in Belfast, and settled in Hampstead in London, as a contributor to many publications.

He married the writer Sylvia Dryhurst in 1909. He used the pseudonym Y.Y in writing for the New Statesman.

Robert Lynd's Anthology of Modern Poetry (1939)

The poets included were:

Lascelles Abercrombie - Martin Armstrong - W. H. Auden - Maurice Baring - Hilaire Belloc - Laurence Binyon - Edmund Blunden - Gordon Bottomley - Lilian Bowes Lyon - Robert Bridges - Rupert Brooke - Joseph Campbell - Roy Campbell - G. K. Chesterton - Richard Church - Austin Clarke - Padraic Colum - Frances Cornford - Margaret Cropper - Charles Dalmon - W. H. Davies - Edward Davison - C. Day Lewis - Walter de la Mare - Lord Alfred Douglas - John Drinkwater - Clifford Dyment - A. E. - T. S. Eliot - James Elroy Flecker - Viola Garvin - Monk Gibbon - Stella Gibbons - W. W. Gibson - Oliver Gogarty - Louis Golding - Gerald Gould - Bryan Guinness - George Rostrevor Hamilton - Thomas Hardy - Christopher Hassall - F. R. Higgins - Ralph Hodgson - Gerard Manley Hopkins - A. E. Housman - Aldous Huxley - Douglas Hyde - James Joyce - Frank Kendon - T. M. Kettle - Rudyard Kipling - D. H. Lawrence - Francis Ledwidge - Eiluned Lewis - F. L. Lucas - Sylvia Lynd - Thomas MacDonagh - Louis Macneice - John Masefield - Charlotte Mew - Alice Meynell - Alice Milligan - Harold Monro - T. Sturge Moore - Sir Henry Newbolt - Robert Nichols - Alfred Noyes - Frank O'Connor - Moira O'Neill - Seumas O'Sullivan - Wilfred Owen - Herbert Palmer - Padraic H. Pearse - Ruth Pitter - Hugh Gordon Porteus - Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch - Herbert Read - Ernest Rhys - Richard Rowley - V. Sackville-West - Siegfried Sassoon - Edward Shanks - Fredegond Shove - Edith Sitwell - Stanley Snaith - Charles H. Sorley - Stephen Spender - Sir John Squire - William Force Stead - James Stephens - L. A. G. Strong - Dylan Thomas - Edward Thomas - Edward Thompson - Herbert Trench - W. J. Turner - Katharine Tynan - Sir William Watson - Dorothy Wellesley - Evelyn Underhill - Sir Robert Vansittart - Sylvia Townsend Warner - Charles Williams - Humbert Wolfe - W. B. Yeats - Andrew Young - Francis Brett Young

Works

• Irish and English (1908)
• Home Life in Ireland (1909)
• Rambles in Ireland (1912)
• The Book of This and That (1915)
• If the Germans Conquered England (1917)
• Old and New Masters (1919)
• Ireland a Nation (1919)
• The Art of Letters (1920)
• The Passion of Labour (1920) New Statesman articles
• The Pleasures of Ignorance (1921)
• Solomon in All His Glory (1922)
• The Sporting Life and Other Trifles (1922)
• Books and Authors (1922)
• The Blue Lion (1923)
• Selected Essays (1923)
• The Peal of Bells (1924)
• The Money Box (1925)
• The Orange Tree (1926)
• The Little Angel (1926)
• Dr. Johnson and Company (1927)
• The Goldfish (1927)
• The Silver Books of English Sonnets (1927) editor
• The Green Man (1928)
• It's a Fine World (1930)
• Rain, Rain, go to Spain (1931)
• Great Love Stories of All Nations (1932) editor
• "Y.Y." An Anthology of Essays (1933)
• The Cockleshell (1933)
• Both Sides of the Road (1934)
• I Tremble to Think (1936)
• In Defence of Pink (1937)
• Searchlights and Nightingales (1939)
• An Anthology of Modern Poetry (1939) editor
• Life's Little Oddities (1941) illustrated by Steven Spurrier
• Further Essays of Robert Lynd (1942)
• Things One Hears (1945) illustrated by Claire Oldham
• Essays on Life and Literature (1951)
• Books and Writers (1952)
• Essays by Robert Lynd (1959)
• Galway of the Races - Selected essays (1990) edited by Sean McMahon