This is a valuable series of papers in their vigor of thought and grace of diction. The author has written on Shelley, Wordsworth, Longfellow, George Eliot, and George Meredith, besides essays on "Religious Doubt and Modern Poetry" and "The Poetry of Despair." The latter paper has more particular reference to the work of Matthew Arnold and James Thomson. All that Mr. Dawson writes is popular on this side of the Atlantic. In the present case his essays are alike simulative to thought and provocative of relish for the higher ...
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This is a valuable series of papers in their vigor of thought and grace of diction. The author has written on Shelley, Wordsworth, Longfellow, George Eliot, and George Meredith, besides essays on "Religious Doubt and Modern Poetry" and "The Poetry of Despair." The latter paper has more particular reference to the work of Matthew Arnold and James Thomson. All that Mr. Dawson writes is popular on this side of the Atlantic. In the present case his essays are alike simulative to thought and provocative of relish for the higher literature. -"The Methodist Review," Vol. 75 [1893] We noticed the first edition of these essays when they appeared in 1886 and are glad to welcome this revised and enlarged edition. Mr. Dawson's mastery of phrase and his range of illustration add much to the charm of his critiques. The added studies of George Meredith and of the New Realism show the same power of entering into a writer's meaning and getting to the heart of his work as the earlier essays. George Meredith's keen but cruel satire is vividly brought out. "If it were possible to light up a human body from the inside, so that it should become transparent to us, like a glass beehive, in which we see every movement of busy wing or tentacle, so that in like manner we might discern every little beating nerve of man, every throb and palpitation of remotest vein and artery, it would be an apt figure of how Meredith treats the souls of men." The New Realism gives four brief but sympathetic and luminous studies of Olive Schreiner, Mark Rutherford, Rudyard Kipling, and J. M. Barry, which will tempt many readers to a closer knowledge of their works. -"London Quarterly and Holborn Review," Vol. 79 [1893]
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