George Meredith: The Critical Heritage (The Collected Critical Heritage : Later 19th Century Novelists)

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling the student and researcher to read the material themselves. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 NOTE ON THE TEXT AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 14 INTRODUCTION......Page 16 NOTES......Page 38 LIST OF GEORGE MEREDITH'S PUBLICATIONS......Page 41 Unsigned review, Leader, 5 July 1851......Page 42 Unsigned review, Spectator, 22 August 1851......Page 43 J.A.HERAUD, Athenaeum, 23 August 1851......Page 45 W.M.ROSSETTI, Critic, 5 November 1851......Page 47 CHARLES KINGSLEY, Fraser's Magazine, December 1851......Page 50 Unsigned review, Critic, 1 January 1856......Page 54 GEORGE ELIOT, Leader, 5 January 1856......Page 55 G.H.LEWES, Saturday Review, 19 January 1856......Page 58 Unsigned review, Idler, March 1856......Page 61 GEORGE ELIOT, Westminster Review, April 1856......Page 62 From an unsigned review, New Quarterly Review, April 1856......Page 64 Unsigned review, Spectator, 22 August 1857......Page 65 Unsigned review, Saturday Review, 29 August 1857......Page 67 Unsigned notice, Critic, 1 September 1857......Page 70 GEORGE MEREDITH, Westminster Review, October 1857......Page 71 From a review by H.F.CHORLEY, Athenaeum, 28 November 1857......Page 74 Unsigned review, Leader, 2 July 1859......Page 76 Unsigned review, Critic, 2 July 1859......Page 78 G.E.JEWSBURY, Athenaeum, 9 July 1859......Page 82 Unsigned review, Spectator, 9 July 1859......Page 84 Unsigned review, Saturday Review, 9 July 1859......Page 86 Unsigned review, Illustrated London News, 13 August 1859......Page 91 SAMUEL LUCAS, The Times, 14 October 1859......Page 92 Unsigned review, Westminster Review, October 1859......Page 99 Unsigned review, Spectator, 19 January 1861......Page 101 Unsigned review, Saturday Review, 19 January 1861......Page 102 R.H.HUTTON, Spectator, 24 May 1862......Page 107 A.C.SWINBURNE, reply to Hutton, Spectator, 7 June 1862......Page 112 J.W.MARSTON, Athenaeum, 31 May 1862......Page 115 Unsigned review, Saturday Review, 24 October 1863......Page 118 RICHARD GARNETT, Reader, 23 April 1864......Page 123 G.E.JEWSBURY, Athenaeum, 30 April 1864......Page 126 MRS HARDMAN, Saturday Review, 28 May 1864......Page 129 Unsigned review, Westminster Review, July 1864......Page 134 Unsigned review, Examiner, 23 July 1864......Page 136 JUSTIN M'CARTHY, an early appreciation, 1864......Page 139 J.C.JEAFFRESON, Athenaeum, 14 October 1865......Page 151 Unsigned review, Saturday Review, 14 October 1865......Page 154 Unsigned review, Westminster Review, January 1866......Page 159 Unsigned review, Saturday Review, 2 February 1867......Page 162 G.E.JEWSBURY, Athenaeum, 23 February 1867......Page 167 A.J.BUTLER, Athenaeum, 4 November 1871......Page 170 Unsigned review, Examiner, 11 November 1871......Page 172 R.H.HUTTON, Spectator, 20 January 1872......Page 174 Unsigned review, Westminster Review, January 1872......Page 179 Unsigned notice, Vanity Fair, 23 March 1872......Page 180 MARGARET OLIPHANT, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, June 1872......Page 181 A.J.BUTLER, Athenaeum, 1 January 1876......Page 182 G.B.S., Examiner, 8 January 1876......Page 185 A.I.SHAND, The Times, 8 January 1876......Page 188 R.F.LITTLEDALE, Academy, 15 January 1876......Page 190 Unsigned review, Canadian Monthly, April 1876......Page 192 J.C.CARR Saturday Review, 13 May 1876......Page 197 JAMES THOMSON Secularist, 3 June 1876......Page 202 ARABELLA SHORE, An early appreciation, British Quarterly Review, April 1879......Page 207 Unsigned review, Examiner, 1 November 1879......Page 217 W.E.HENLEY, Athenaeum, 1 November 1879......Page 221 R.H.HUTTON, Spectator, 1 November 1879......Page 225 W.E.HENLEY, Pall Mall Gazette, 3 November 1879......Page 230 Unsigned review, Saturday Review, 15 November 1879......Page 233 W.E.HENLEY, Academy, 22 November 1879......Page 238 JAMES THOMSON, Cope's Tobacco Plant, January 1880......Page 240 Unsigned review, New Quarterly Magazine, January 1880......Page 246 MARGARET OLIPHANT, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, September 1880......Page 251 Unsigned review, St James's Gazette, 25 June 1883......Page 256 Unsigned review, Pall Mall Gazette, 29 June 1883......Page 259 MARK PATTISON, Academy, 21 July 1883......Page 263 ALICE MEYNELL, Merry England, August 1883......Page 268 W.P.KER, Contemporary Review, September 1883......Page 270 W.E.HENLEY, Athenaeum, 14 March 1885......Page 272 COSMOE MONKHOUSE, Saturday Review, 21 March 1885......Page 277 Unsigned review, Pall Mall Gazette, 28 March 1885......Page 280 Unsigned review, Illustrated London News, 28 March 1885......Page 283 F.V.DICKINS, Spectator, 18 April 1885......Page 285 ARTHUR SYMONS, Time, May 1885......Page 289 Unsigned review, The Times, 1 June 1885......Page 294 W.L.COURTNEY on Meredith's claims to eminence, 1886......Page 296 Unsigned review, Pall Mall Gazette, 26 May 1887......Page 306 W.E.HENLEY, Athenaeum, 11 June 1887......Page 309 Unsigned review, Westminster Review, September 1887......Page 312 G.P.BAKER, JNR. on Meredith as a Philosophical Novelist, 1887......Page 318 MEREDITH'S reply to G.P.Baker, 22 July 1887......Page 326 GEORGE MOORE on Meredith, 1888......Page 327 OSCAR WILDE on Meredith, 1888 91......Page 330 WILLIAM WATSON, an attack on Meredith, 1889......Page 332 SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE on Meredith's 'audacious genius', 1890......Page 345 RICHARD LE GALLIENNE'S reply to Watson, 1890......Page 346 Unsigned review, Anti-Jacobin, 25 April 1891......Page 359 H.S.WILSON, Athenaeum, 2 May 1891......Page 361 Unsigned review, The Times, 18 May 1891......Page 367 Unsigned review, Saturday Review, 23 May 1891......Page 370 J.A.NOBLE, Spectator, 30 May 1891......Page 373 LIONEL JOHNSON, Academy, 13 June 1891......Page 375 Unsigned review, Saturday Review, 17 December 1892......Page 379 Meredith as a story-teller, Temple Bar, April 1893......Page 383 Unsigned review, Saturday Review, 7 July 1894......Page 398 LIONEL JOHNSON, Academy, 7 July 1894......Page 401 J.STUART, Athenaeum, 14 July 1894......Page 405 Unsigned review, Pall Mall Gazette, 20 July 1894......Page 409 J.A.NOBLE, Spectator, 4 August 1894......Page 413 G-Y, Bookman, August 1894......Page 415 HENRY JAMES on Lord Ormont, 22 August 1894......Page 421 Unsigned review, Cosmopolitan (New York), October 1894......Page 422 Unsigned review, Literary World (Boston), 8 September 1895......Page 423 H.M.CECIL on Meredith at his best and worst, Free Review, August 1894......Page 427 EDMUND GOSSE, St James's Gazette, November 1895......Page 444 BASIL WILLIAMS, Athenaeum, 30 November 1895......Page 447 ALICE MEYNELL, Illustrated London News, 14 December 1895......Page 451 Unsigned review, Saturday Review, 21 December 1895......Page 453 Unsigned review, Pall Mall Gazette, 23 December 1895......Page 455 Unsigned review, Bookman, January 1896......Page 459 W.GARRETT FISHER, Academy, 11 January 1896......Page 462 J.A.NOBLE, Spectator, January 1896......Page 466 J.M.ROBERTSON on Meredith's 'preciosity', Yellow Book, April 1897......Page 468 ARTHUR SYMONS on Meredith as a decadent, Fortnightly Review, November 1897......Page 473 FRANCIS THOMPSON, Academy, 12 March 1898......Page 480 Unsigned review, Saturday Review, 12 November 1898......Page 482 Unsigned review, Literature, 26 November 1898......Page 485 OWEN SEAMAN, Athenaeum, 24 December 1898......Page 489 Unsigned review, Academy, 29 June 1901......Page 492 Unsigned review, Saturday Review, 13 July 1901......Page 494 ARTHUR SYMONS, Athenaeum, 20 July 1901......Page 499 S.P.SHERMAN on Meredith's historical importance, Nation, 3 June 1909......Page 503 REV. JAMES MOFFATT on Meredith in perspective, Bookman, July 1909......Page 512 PERCY LUBBOCK, a final appreciation, Quarterly Review, April 1910......Page 518 H.G.WELLS on One of Our Conquerors, The New Machiavelli, 1911......Page 533 APPENDIX I: R.L.STEVENSON ON MEREDITH, 1882 94......Page 535 APPENDIX II: GEORGE GISSING ON MEREDITH, 1885 95......Page 538 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 540 INDEX......Page 542