Meredith, George : (1828-1909), English poet & novelist, he did not receive wide recognition until the publication of Diana of the Crossways (1885).
... their being real men and women. Moreover to the Page 109 wonderful passion and poetry of his finest creations there are in English fiction, outside the Brontes and that supreme genius, George Meredith, no parallel instances. Insight into the secrets of feminine character, that is another notable concomitant of the best dramatic power, and that too Bankim possesses. Wade as you will through the... coloured puppet; even in Thackeray the real women are only three or four. But the supreme dramatic genius has found out this secret of femineity. Shakespeare had it to any degree, and in our own century Meredith, and among ourselves Bankim. The social reformer, gazing, of course, through that admirable pair of spectacles given to him by the Calcutta University, can find nothing excellent in Hindu life, except ...
... once approvingly quoted to her from George Meredith. Meredith had written to the effect: "Men fall from God's Grace because they cling to God not with their strength but with their weakness." The Mother's instant reaction was: "That is rubbish!" I was taken aback and from her attitude I understood what she meant. Let me explain. Meredith's is nothing more than a clever contrived ...
... complete conspiracy of silence against me - a conspiracy of silence! What ought I to do, Oscar?" "Join it," replied Wilde, with happy readiness. 16 (ii)In a discussion on George Meredith, Oscar Wilde commented: "Meredith is a prose Browning - and so is Browning." 17 (iii)Oscar Wilde possessed the power of spontaneous wit which he kept even when he was in an unfortunate position. He had... re-tail him." 11 (6) From Lloyd George: Lloyd George had the Celtic quickness of dual perception which is essential to wit. On one occasion when he was talking about Home Rule and saying that he wanted to see it not only for Ireland, but for Scotland and for Wales, an interrupter exclaimed, "And for hell, too." "Certainly, my friend," came Lloyd George's unexpected retort, "I always like ...
... achievement happily tracing it, whereas his companion rather lanky and somewhat taller, with a tiny moustache and a close-cut fringe of beard, appears to strain his gaze towards a future" which, to quote Meredith, "lends a yonder to all ends." Harin, "overburdened with the favours of the goddess," was already famous with his Feast of Youth which was reviewed by Sri Aurobindo himself in the November 1918... fireflies, what we probe are the surface details of the subconscient. But nowhere is there poetry. The Western critic is just an adult of the city and is bereaved of his mother. Indians ape him. For Meredith poetry is the overflow of our inmost in the sweetest way. Will we get it? Ogden Nash proclaims that Brightness falls from the air Queens have died young and fair, Dust hath closed... acquiring the qualities of the expressive soul it-self. Mystical experience then just becomes one aspect of its rich and many-dimensional possibilities. We have a good glimpse of it in AE's (George William Russell) "The Vesture of the Soul". When he says .. .I could not guess The viewless spirit's wide domain, .. .The royal robe I wear Page 137 Trails all ...
... poetry is concerned the new age is not yet. It is with Sāvitrī that the new age may be said to have arrived. Among the precursors of this new age may be counted Whitman, Carpenter, Yeats, A. E. Meredith, Stephen Phillips, Tagore in whose works one can see clear indications of the new spirit and experiments with many forms of poetic expression. The nature of this change may be said to consist in the... Irish culture: "Dusk wraps the village in its dim caress; Each chimney's vapour, like a thin grey rod, Mounting aloft through miles of quietness, Pillars the skies of God". — A. E. George Russel. This strain is present in more or less degree in all the writers whom we have named as precursors. The old forms of poetic speech cannot contain entirely the new spirit and they... all, in most of them, a perception of the supra-rational and a tendency to concretise, to objectivise, so to say, inner, states or spiritual experiences. Among these poets may be counted C.Day Lewis, George Barker, Stephen Spender, W. H. Auden, Peter Yeats, Walter Alien, Edith Sitwell, David Gascoyne, J.A.Chadwic alias Arjava, K.D.Sethna, Sigfried Sasson, Herbert Read, to give only a few names out of ...
... s. Even in the hands of a poet finer than Kingsley, Clough or Longfellow, the movement lacks ease and power except for a few almost accidental steps. Here is a translation from the Iliad by George Meredith: Now, as when fire voracious catches the undipped woodland, This way bears it and that the great whirl of the wind and the scrubwood Stretches uptorn, flung forward alength... living to us and their structure is firm yet flexible. But the general impression both the quotations give is of a deliberate artificial rush or run and there is considerable jolting if not limping. Meredith introduces with success a large number of spondees, especially at the end of his lines: spondees either by stress alone or stress and quantity. He has also a skilful enjambment, a running-over from... rivalled in Marlowe's note of dread by means of a cretic (/X/): Page 43 Even the accentual hexameter does not always stick to its norm. Take the two best lines from Meredith's Homer-translation already quoted: This way | bears it and | that the great | whirl of the | wind and the | scrubwood Stretches up | torn, flung | forward a | length by the | fire's ...
... acquainted with the best literatures of the world? Not indispensable,—even by being steeped in one literature, one can arrive. But useful of course. What do you say about my plans to read Meredith, Hardy, Shelley, Keats and the French and Russian writers? Lord, Sir, I wish I had time to follow out a programme as massive as yours. I have none even to dilate upon yours. You know I have... suppose he got a dose of Force at night! Well, Thursday is the day he comes to Mother. S was given Sudarshan yesterday—hasn't turned up at all today. Bitter has produced bitterness? By George! but that's a drastic remedy if he is malingering. He will say again "Trust not in doctors." September 24, 1936 Nishikanta's leg is much better now. What is actually the matter with ...
... context, to which Mr. Alvares himself refers in a note. 85 I wrote to Sri Aurobindo: The English reader has digested Carlyle and swallowed Meredith and is not quite unwilling to re-Joyce in even more startling strangenesses of expression at the present day. Will his stomach really turn at the novelty of that phrase... to do with the matter. Poetry is permitted to be insane — the poet and the madman go together: though even there are limits. Meredith and Carlyle are tortuous or extravagant in their style only — though they can be perfectly sane when they want. From Mr. Alvares's... 16."Sri Aurobindo and Existentialism", The Integral Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo, Edited by Haridas Chaudhuri and Frederic Spiegelberg (George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., London, 1960), p. 53. 17 The Radical Thinkers: Heidegger and Sri Aurobindo (California Institute of Asian Studies, San Francisco ...
... gods more divine. 14 Sri Aurobindo wrote these articles before the work of Hopkins, Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, Auden and the later Yeats achieved publication, and even as regards the poetry of Meredith, Phillips, A.E. and Yeats, Sri Aurobindo had mainly to depend Page 615 on the quotations in Cousin's book. With all these limitations, however, Sri Aurobindo has been able to... remains the out-topping name in English poetry, but there is still no reason why the next wave shouldn't carry poetry to higher points of achievement than even Shakespeare's. Sri Aurobindo finds in Meredith and Phillips vague hints of a new voice, and in the Irish poets, A.E. and Yeats, something more too: an intimation of the filiations between man's earthly life and the unseen psychical life; an intimation... fullness of the delineation and the gorgeousness of the imagery. In attempting a continuation of the Iliad of Homer, Sri Aurobindo was taking no small risk, but it was also an irresistible challenge. George Steiner has described the Iliad as "the primer of tragic art", for the Western sense of the "tragic" has been woven out of its motifs and images: "the shortness of heroic life, the exposure of man ...
... blameless nor has distinguishing merit. Other novelists have a style and a good one but their prose is not quoted as a model and they are remembered not for that but as creators. You speak of Meredith, and if Meredith had always written as he did in Richard Feverel he might have figured chiefly as a master of language, but the creator got the better of the stylist in the bulk of his work. I was writing... are needed, or one or other of them, but the purdah is not likely to produce them, though there may be a lucky accident in the worst circumstances, but one can't count on accidents. A George Eliot, a George Sand, a Virginia Woolf, a Sappho, or even a Comtesse de Noailles grew up in other circumstances. May 1933? It is true that the removal of the sex-impulse in all its forms ...
... this plasticity in the diverse styles English literature teems with - the individual element at almost riotous play as between author and author (Sir Thomas Browne, Addison, Gibbon, Ruskin, Carlyle, Meredith, Arnold, Chesterton, Shaw, etc.) with no persistent tradition of writing as, for instance, in France for both prose and poetry until very recent times when a rebellious 'modernism' blew winds of radical... this poet, though you have written on AE the visionary and mystic and haven't quoted a line of his verse. In this excellent paper there is one small oversight. The adoption of "AEON" as his name by George Russell does not explain how he came to be known as AE. The fact is that the name "AEON" put by Russell at the end of an article was accidentally turned into AE by the falling out of the last two ...
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