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Title: George Meredith in anecdote and criticism
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir, 1871-1949
Subjects: Meredith, George, 1828-1909
Publisher: London, G. Richards New York, M. Kennerley
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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RGE MEREDITH that women are of mixed essences shading off the divine to theconsiderably lower, as Mr. Meredith somewhere writes; that thereare different spiritual species of the genus woman, recurrent in eachand every age under changeful disguises. But if the moralist isto have his way, then he must constrain the artist to win the earof young men and maidens, that so the Meredithian woman maybe demanded and supplied. Youth, however, as Mr. Meredithknows, requires simple, decisive directness; and Mr. Meredith iscomplex and indecisive just because he takes careful philosophicaccount of truth and life. Is it, or is it not, a paradox that he isless likely to win the ear of young England in proportion to hiswisdom? True wisdom, at least, is always complex and given toself-contradiction ; and Mr. Meredith at some time or other recon-siders and attenuates all the more trenchant of his statements.Whereby he further renders nugatory such critical restatements asare all too simple and decisive.
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/ ,.!: .,:,■ Jnzauii^ly Gcor^e du Maitiia-in the Cornhili: Ottilia I saw her standing with a silver lamp raised in her right hand to the level of her head, as ifshe expected to meet obscurity. She was like a statue of twilight. —Harry Richmond. Chapter XXXV. ( The ar:ist liai maJe a mistake as to the hand in which Ottilia carried the light; a not uncotivnon error whendtawiui^- on wood, the picture having to be drawn reversed,^ By permission of Messrs. Smith, Elder is- Co. XI HIS POETRY Earth made herself a laureate, to bring-The hearts of all her children to the light:She took a meteor in the tracks of flight To be his brain—in jewels scattering. So that with lovelier cadence he might sing She gave him of the voices of the nig^ht. And there was nothing hidden from his sig-htIn all the tale of mans imagining-. Earths minstrel! You have chanted to and fro,The boon companion of the wandering wind, For you have tarried where loves roses grow And soared where eagles would be stricken

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