Showing posts with label MEREDITH George. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MEREDITH George. Show all posts
Friday, October 4, 2013

Unnatural? My dear, these things are life - a look at "Modern Love"

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George Meredith has been propped up a bit by his biography.  After nine years of marriage, his wife ran off with a painter.  Whatever might ...
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Thursday, October 3, 2013

Good George Meredith lines - autumn, a curvy owl, the long noon coo

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George Meredith’s selected poems are in some danger of shrinking to two pieces, the anthology standard “Lucifer in Starlight” and the sonnet...
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Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Doglike, hoglike, horselike now he raced - describing George Meredith's poetry

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Wasn’t that fun, writing about those amusing Dickens stories that once were and could still be read and enjoyed by ordinary, non-obsessive r...
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Friday, September 27, 2013

Meredith's storm scene - speculating on how the butterflies and moths saved their coloured wings from washing

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The artificiality of The Ordeal of Richard Feverel is most obvious in the chapters where he suddenly switches rhetorical modes, when his wr...
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Thursday, September 26, 2013

George Meredith mocks Jane Austen's favorite novel - The clean-linen of her morality was spotless as his

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The key to The Ordeal of Richard Feverel is its deliberate artificiality.  George Meredith’s conception of the novel is unusual.  He fits p...
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One of Meredith’s more baffling sentences - perhaps more than one

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Meine Frau has described Thomas Bernhard as the anchovy of German literature, meaning that although many people savor him, for others even ...
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Hippy verteth, Ricky sterteth, Sing Cuckoo! - George Meredith's The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

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The Ordeal of Richard Feverel , a novel by George Meredith published in 1859.  Meredith would later be not only famous but regarded as a gre...
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