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H. D. Traill. Sterne
Sterne
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CHAPTER I
BIRTH, PARENTAGE, AND EARLY YEARS. CHAPTER II
SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY.—HALIFAX AND CAMBRIDGE. CHAPTER III
LIFE AT SUTTON.—MARRIAGE.—THE PARISH PRIEST. CHAPTER IV
"TRISTRAM SHANDY," VOLS. I. AND II. CHAPTER V
LONDON TRIUMPHS.—FIRST SET OF SERMONS.—"TRISTRAM SHANDY," VOLS. III. AND IV.—COXWOLD.—"TRISTRAM SHANDY," VOLS. V. AND VI.—FIRST VISIT TO THE CONTINENT.—PARIS.—TOULOUSE. CHAPTER VI
LIFE IN THE SOUTH.—RETURN TO ENGLAND.—"TRISTRAM SHANDY," VOLS. VII. AND VIII.—SECOND SET OF SERMONS. CHAPTER VII
FRANCE AND ITALY.—MEETING WITH WIFE AND DAUGHTER.—RETURN TO ENGLAND.—"TRISTRAM SHANDY," VOL. IX.—"THE SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY" CHAPTER VIII
LAST DAYS AND DEATH. CHAPTER IX. STERNE AS A WRITER.—THE CHARGE OF PLAGIARISM.—DR. FERRIAR'S "ILLUSTRATIONS" CHAPTER X. STYLE AND GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS.—HUMOUR AND SENTIMENT. CHAPTER XI. CREATIVE AND DRAMATIC POWER.—PLACE IN ENGLISH LITERATURE. STERNE
CHAPTER I
BIRTH, PARENTAGE, AND EARLY YEARS
CHAPTER II
SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY.—HALIFAX AND CAMBRIDGE
CHAPTER III
LIFE AT SUTTON.—MARRIAGE.—THE PARISH PRIEST
CHAPTER IV
"TRISTRAM SHANDY," VOLS. I. AND II
CHAPTER V
LONDON TRIUMPHS.—FIRST SET OF SERMONS.—"TRISTRAM SHANDY," VOLS. III. AND IV.—COXWOLD.—VOLS. V. AND VI.—FIRST VISIT TO THE CONTINENT.—PARIS.—TOULOUSE
CHAPTER VI
LIFE IN THE SOUTH.—RETURN TO ENGLAND.—VOLS. VII. AND VIII.—SECOND SET OF SERMONS
CHAPTER VII
FRANCE AND ITALY.—MEETING WITH WIFE AND DAUGHTER.—RETURN TO ENGLAND.—"TRISTRAM SHANDY," VOL. IX.—"THE SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY."
CHAPTER VIII
LAST DAYS AND DEATH
CHAPTER IX
STERNE AS A WRITER.—THE CHARGE OF PLAGIARISM.—DR. FERRIAR'S "ILLUSTRATIONS."
CHAPTER X
STYLE AND GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS.—HUMOUR AND SENTIMENT
CHAPTER XI
CREATIVE AND DRAMATIC POWER.—PLACE IN ENGLISH LITERATURE
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H. D. Traill
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Great writers who spring late and suddenly from obscurity into fame and yet die early, must always form more or less perplexing subjects of literary biography. The processes of their intellectual and artistic growth lie hidden in nameless years; their genius is not revealed to the world until it has reached its full maturity, and many aspects of it, which, perhaps, would have easily explained themselves if the gradual development had gone on before men's eyes, remain often unexplained to the last. By few, if any, of the more celebrated English men of letters is this observation so forcibly illustrated as it is in the case of Sterne: the obscure period of his life so greatly exceeded in duration the brief season of his fame, and its obscurity was so exceptionally profound. He was forty-seven years of age when, at a bound, he achieved celebrity; he was not five-and-fifty when he died. And though it might be too much to say that the artist sprang, like the reputation, full-grown into being, it is nevertheless true that there are no marks of positive immaturity to be detected even in the earliest public displays of his art. His work grows, indeed, most marvellously in vividness and symmetry as he proceeds, but there are no visible signs of growth in the workman's skill. Even when the highest point of finish is attained we cannot say that the hand is any more cunning than it was from the first. As well might we say that the last light touches of the sculptor's chisel upon the perfected statue are more skilful than its first vigorous strokes upon the shapeless block.
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