[PDF] George Meredith His Life And Art In Anecdote And Criticism eBook

Author : J. A. Hammerton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 500 pages
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Release : 2018-01-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780332165592

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Excerpt from George Meredith: His Life and Art in Anecdote and Criticism As each great writer moves to fame, his way is marked and its stages heralded by a succession of critical utterances. These become, as it were, rallying points and battle-cries of his partisans; discussion crystallises round them; they strike the key-notes for interpreters. Hence the importance, or the biographer and literary student, of histories of critical opinion. These words, taken from an old review, might very well be allowed to stand as an apology for the present volume. They give in happy and convincing phrase an excellent reason for such a work as that here attempted. The author's purpose has been to follow the career of a great figure in modern letters with some measure of critical detachment, that the result might be to disengage from the vast mass of contemporary criticism an even-tempered and well-considered estimate of the man and his work. Such an estimate should be at least as important as the personal opinion of any one critic, no matter how brilliant, and, in some ways, more valuable. But it is not for the writer to say whether he has succeeded in hitting the mark at which he has aimed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Sir J. A. (John Alexander) Hammerton
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 35,95 MB
Release : 2012-08-01
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ISBN : 9781290846530

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Author : John Alexander Hammerton
Publisher : Scholar's Choice
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 26,32 MB
Release : 2015-02-20
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ISBN : 9781296458645

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