... anecdote, but neither should it be reduced to the desiccated leavings of the account book or the dossier in an Italian police station. GEORGEJ. BECKER Swart hmo re College l7ae Ordeal of George Meredith. By LIONELSTEVENSON. New York...

... Meredith. By NORMANKELVIN. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1961. Pp. ix 4- 250. $5.50. It is difficult not to admire the industry with which Norman Kelvin pursues his theme that Meredith’s views of nature and society became the basis for the form of his novels and poems...

...Meredith Anne Skura Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 I want to thank Martin Wiener for his advice and suggestions about the material in this essay. Understanding the Living and Talking to the Dead: The Historicity of Psychoanalysis Meredith Anne Skura...

...William T. Going A NOTE ON “MY LADY” OF MODERN LOVE By WILLIAMT. GOING Meredith’s critics and biographers have, in general, ignored or overstated the problem of identifying the dramatis personae of his longest poetical work, Modern Love. The problem...

... anecdote, but neither should it be reduced to the desiccated leavings of the account book or the dossier in an Italian police station. GEORGEJ. BECKER Swart hmo re College l7ae Ordeal of George Meredith. By LIONELSTEVENSON. New York...

...) ? Meredith’s sequence of fifty seizains concludes with the following lines : Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life!- In tragic hints here see what evermore Moves dark as yonder midnight...

... may see more clearly than ever before how necessary was the mask of irony to cover the raw nerves and wounded spirit of a great artist. The evidence is in this biography ; yet, in spite of its excellence, The Ordeal of George Meredith is not entirely satisfactory. The ordeal...

... commitments. Cole- ridge is hardly a romantic ironist, yet he alone in this visionary company could imagine an actual future. For he did, as Handwerk observes that Meredith did not, “envisage the transmission and sharing of vision that is essential for its definition and correction” (p. 123...

... his life and his work, which Du Camp does not address at any length. In the wake of the Flaubert-Sand correspondence and Maupassant’s essay, central notions of Flaubert’s theories of style were now far clearer than before. Maupassant ( 1884 : 22) states concisely what only Meredith had come close...

... in literature except in some of Shakespeare’s characters where as here [in Mirkio], we find the truth of real passion.”28 In a letter written in 1861, George Meredith declared his inten- tion of going to Provence to pay a visit to Mistral, whom he con- sidered “really a fine He later...

... for about forty years and was “undoubtedly the most influ- ential” person in its hist0ry.l’ George Meredith read for Chapman and Hall from 1860 to 1895. His beginning salary was f250, and his word was law. He appraised manuscripts of such writers as Mrs. Wood, Ouida, Hardy, Olive Schreiner...

..., as stated by Meredith and Bergson. A theory of Comedy which regards laughter as “a social gesture, a social corrective, a flick of the whip to bring anomalies into the social fold” excludes from its orbit most of Shakespeare. It is suggested that there is laughter of the heart as well...

..., there were those even among the poets who would not willingly let it die. Two poets, George Meredith and William Ernest Henley, both possessed of a matchless joy in feats of physical strength, took especial pleasure, after prize fighting’s fall from grace, in resurrecting the days of glory...

..., p. 224. This note was not found.in the first edition (1892), nor was it repeated in the new translation of Kritzk der UrtheilSkruft which, with Dean Bernard’s assistance, was produced by James Creed Meredith, M.A. 487 Bernard’s note refers to the first...

... Gerald . 1987 . Professing Literature: An Institutional History . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Guillory John . 1995 . Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . McGill Meredith , ed. 2008 . Traffic in Poems...

..., and he says it for England : if I want you I will ring.” The lecture on Comedy is the most instructive, albeit the most pro- vokingly incomplete. In it Professor Gordon sets out the limitations of the satiric or corrective theory of Comedy, as stated by Meredith and Bergson. A theory...

... . Robert Browning: The Critical Heritage . London : Routledge and Kegan Paul . MacCallum Mungo William . 1884 . Studies in Low German and High German Literature . London : Kegan Paul, Trench . ———. 1892 . George Meredith: Poet and Novelist . Sydney : Turner and Henderson...

... to society. She gives most of her attention to the major novelists, Thackeray, Dick- ens, Eliot, and Meredith, but the thematic basis of her book allows her to introduce other important figures like Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Gissing, who contributed significantly...

... in psychological insight into the relations between men and women or compare wi’th Meredith in defining the selfish subtleties that could confound a Victorian marriage. Nonetheless, he believes that Tenny- son better than Browning or Meredith represents the conflict experienced, he claims, by many...

... . Maclean Norman . 1955 . “ From Action to Image: Theories of the Lyric in the Eighteenth Century .” In Critics and Criticism: Ancient and Modern , edited by Crane R. S. , 408 – 60 . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Martin Meredith . 2016 . “ ‘Imperfectly Civilized’: Ballads...