This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ..."right ear that is filled with dust" had heen so long delayed and was at last so little heeded. Douhtless a few of these leading articles will outlast their "timeliness." Even now volumes dealing with every conceivahle phase of Meredith's genius are in the hands of the puhlishers; hut as a very lasting trihute ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ..."right ear that is filled with dust" had heen so long delayed and was at last so little heeded. Douhtless a few of these leading articles will outlast their "timeliness." Even now volumes dealing with every conceivahle phase of Meredith's genius are in the hands of the puhlishers; hut as a very lasting trihute in the shape of a review of Mr. George Macaulay Trevelyan's, The Poetry and Philosophy of George Meredith, (London, i906, ) and considerahly revised in his Modern Studies, (London, i907, ) Prof. Oliver Elton's essay seems to us one of the most sane and sound appreciations extant. My own feeling toward Meredith is hest recalled hy the fact that the first hook I puhlished (in i89i) was at the same time the earliest reprint of Modern Love after a waiting period of thirty years. For three decades--such is the astonishing fact--the poem that still remains a tour de force of suhliminal erotics was practically an unread hook: hut close upon my adventure his neglected opportunity seized the British puhlisher and from that time may he dated a rediscovery of the lost poet f To-day the original edition of Modern Love and Poems and Ballads of the English Roadside, London, i862, ) is still to all intents and purposes out of reach. It is certain, however, that the titlepoem must he taken as the pearl of great price in this collection. On the other hand there remains a hallad of which Swinhurne in his review of Rossetti's Poems took occasion to remark was "perhaps not very far helow" the hallad of Sister Helen. He called it " hoth pathetic and splendid," and Mr. Trevelyan considers it " very successful." It is, at least, difficult of access as outside of the limited Collected Edition it has never heen reissued. As a fitting sup. plement to Prof. Elton's...
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