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Edmund Gosse. Aspects and Impressions
Aspects and Impressions
Table of Contents
Aspects and Impressions
GEORGE ELIOT
HENRY JAMES
I
SAMUEL BUTLER
A NOTE ON CONGREVE
THE FIRST DRAFT OF SWINBURNE'S ANACTORIA
THE HÔTEL DE RAMBOUILLET
MALHERBE AND THE CLASSICAL REACTION[3]
THE FOUNDATION OF THE FRENCH ACADEMY
ROUSSEAU IN ENGLAND IN THE. NINETEENTH CENTURY
THE CENTENARY OF LECONTE DE LISLE
TWO FRENCH CRITICS. EMILE FAGUET—REMY DE GOURMONT
THE WRITINGS OF M. CLEMENCEAU
A VISIT TO THE FRIENDS OF IBSEN
FAIRYLAND AND A BELGIAN ARIOSTO
SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF LORD WOLSELEY
INDEX
Footnote
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Edmund Gosse
Published by Good Press, 2021
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How near this is to true poetry, and yet how many miles away!
At last George Eliot seems to have felt that she could never hope, with all her intellect, to catch the unconsidered music which God lavishes on the idle linnet and the frivolous chaffinch. She returned to her own strenuous business of building up the psychological novel. She wrote Middlemarch, which appeared periodically throughout 1872 and as a book early the following year. It was received with great enthusiasm, as marking the return of a popular favourite who had been absent for several years. Middlemarch is the history of three parallel lives of women, who "with dim lights and tangled circumstances tried to shape their thought and deed in noble agreement," although "to common eyes their struggles seemed mere inconsistency and formlessness." The three ineffectual St. Theresas, as their creator conceived them, were Dorothea, Rosamond, and Mary, and they "shaped the thought and deed" of Casaubon and Ladislaw and Fred Vincy. Middlemarch is constructed with unfailing power, and the picture of commonplace English country life which it gives is vivacious after a mechanical fashion, but all the charm of the early stories has evaporated, and has left behind it merely a residuum of unimaginative satire. The novel is a very remarkable instance of elaborate mental resources misapplied, and genius revolving, with tremendous machinery, like some great water-wheel, while no water is flowing underneath it.
