Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Writers of Three Centuries: 1789-1914
The present volume of essays is an attempt to set right certain reputations which, owing to our general habit of reading quickly, and lazily accepting the current view of the case, are in danger of losing their pmper proportions. The public version is a strange thing. We are swept along by an anonymous voice which alternately debases Tennyson, exalts Swinburne, pits Dickens against Thackeray, and bestows the laurel wreath and withdraws it on the impulse of a moment. We must learn always to see both sides, never to look at forms only in' extent but endeavour to see them always in relief. Formal criticism is not the purpose of these discursive papers - in fact, the book is only a, kind of Bradshaw for amateurs. In treating of authors familiar from childhood, it is seldom possible to tell what is altogether one's own, and what has been suggested by others. My obligation to various writers is so. Ggeat that I cannot even remember them all'
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