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...Frances Theresa Russell Copyright © 1928 by Duke University Press 1928 LAUREL FOR GEORGE MEREDITH FRANCES THERESA RUSSELL Stanford University ABOUT half a century ago, speaking of one of his charac­ ters, a novelist summed up a situation that now applies to himself on this occasion of his...

...Andrew Wright A Troubled Eden: Nature and Society in the Works of George Meredith . By Kelvin Norman . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1961 . Pp. xiii , 250 . $5.50 . Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 Book Reviews 555 fewer blunders both military...

...Merle M. Bevington Meredith . By Sassoon Siegfried . New York : The Viking Press , 1948 . Pp. viii , 269 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 306 The South Atlantic Quarterly Meredith. By Siegfried Sassoon. New York: The Viking Press, 1948. Pp. viii, 269...

...Elmer James Bailey Copyright © 1911 by Duke University Press 1911 A Note on a Reputedly Incomprehensible Poem Elmbe Jambs Bailey Author of "The Novels of George Meredith: A Study . Even the most unthinking devourer of novels has at last learn­ ed to say with glib assurance that George...

...J. Meredith Neil Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 1955: The Beginning of Our Own Times J. Meredith Neil American culture increasingly appears to be tailspinning into chaos and confusion. Manipulation of popular attitudes by the mass me­ dia, student revolts spreading from...

...J. Meredith Neil Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 The Impact of the Armory Show J. Meredith Neil The Armory Show of 1913 is commonly accepted as a major landmark in the history of American art. It is used by historians to signal the ef­ fective end of the nineteenth century...

...Meredith N. Posey The Correspondence of Walt Whitman. Volume III: 1876-1885 . Edited, with Introduction and notes, by Miller Edwin Haviland . New York : New York University Press , 1964 . Pp. ix , 473 . $10.00 . Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press 1965 150 The South...

... realized only in practical directions. Matthew Arnold, therefore, thought it well to resist the inroads of science into education. On the other hand, George Meredith and Samuel Butler, like John Dewey today, wanted to use scientific thought to discipline, purify, and ennoble the intellect and spirit...

... man named William George Meredith, son of a wealthy neighbor of the D Israelis. An intimacy existed between the Merediths and the D Israelis for several years. The young people, according to a memorandum pre­ served at Hughenden Manor, were constantly together: The two young men wrote plays...

... welcome sign that Meredith is being taken seriously again. After a quarter century of complete neglect, Meredith received the deserved accolade of a scholarly biography of uncommonly high merit, The Ordeal of George Meredith (1953) by Professor Lionel Stevenson. In the last decade, Meredith has also been...

...: A Victorian Portrait. By Edward Wagenknecht. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1929. 365 pp. The Life of George Meredith. By Robert Esmonde Sencourt. New York:: Charles Scribner s Sons, 1929. 343 pp. In writing of Charles Dickens, the man, Mr. Wagenknecht has fol­ lowed the manner and example of Mr...

... of five-stress verse and calls the form a lilting alexandrine. When he finds a poem such as Hymn to Colour difficult, he retreats to the safety of the statement that it is one of those poems which can be enjoyed without being understood. He is occasionally not bad on Meredith s sins of style...

... teresting, with the exception of John Clare. He has a good word for Meredith, which must be a personal estimate, since Meredith both as poet and as novelist is now quite out of favor. Anyone tempted by the ease and lightness of touch of Meredith s poetry, almost concealing his occasional obscurity...

... University Press 1962 556 The South Atlantic Quarterly him how to order his private, public, and political life. Meredith s faith in the benevolence of nature not only withstood the trials of a long life but inspired the form and theme of much of his work, just as distrust of nature influenced the work...

.... He takes a similar highbrow position when he entitles his chapter on the Victorians The Middle-Class Muse and finds the minor poets of the period unin­ 456 The South Atlantic Quarterly teresting, with the exception of John Clare. He has a good word for Meredith, which must be a personal estimate...

... Meredith, D. H. Lawrence, Henry James, and Joseph Conrad. Meredith s The Egoist is contrived work just as in a more subtle and paradoxically flamboyant manner is the Sons and Lowers of D. H. Lawrence. But the contrivance is so great that it transcends contrivance and becomes a critical, creative music...

... of Negroes, however dedicated, were no match for this resistance. It could only be overcome by a force equally mas­ sive, equally resourceful, equally relentless. Lord says that by the latter part of September, just a few days before James Meredith was to be admitted to the University of Mississippi, Barnett...

... fondness for Jane Austen is well known; this study demonstrates his less-well recognized affinity for George Meredith, arguing that Forster s use of the Comic Spirit is more Meredithean than Meredith s. Mr. Crews of necessity goes over ground covered by other students of Forster such as Lionel Trilling...

... fondness for Jane Austen is well known; this study demonstrates his less-well recognized affinity for George Meredith, arguing that Forster s use of the Comic Spirit is more Meredithean than Meredith s. Mr. Crews of necessity goes over ground covered by other students of Forster such as Lionel Trilling...

... Atlantic Quarterly Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. Morley, for instance, could write to a friend: Oh that we were in those old ages of noble, grave belief. They were not always or consistently anticlerical. George Meredith said...