George Meredith
George Meredith

Author: Jacqueline P. Banerjee

Publisher: Northcote House Pub Limited

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 139

ISBN-13: 0746312148

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George Meredith was a lyrical yet searingly honest poet, and an influential novelist whose fiction distilled, contributed to and animated the major debates of the Victorian age. He became at once an arbiter of taste in his own times, and a trailblazer for modernism. In many ways an extraordinary, larger-than-life figure, he has always had his admirers, and critics have continued to be drawn to the biographical, socio-political, scientific and experimental aspects of his oeuvre. Some of his works, including the sonnets ofModern Love, his 'Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit', and novels like The Egoist, have attained the status of classics. The present study focuses on such works, putting them in context to show how innovatively this versatile writer shaped and reshaped his material, and how powerfully his inimitable voice still resonates with (and challenges) us in the twenty first century.

Letters of George Meredith, Vol. 1 of 2
Letters of George Meredith, Vol. 1 of 2

Author: George Meredith

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-12

Total Pages: 694

ISBN-13: 9780428915414

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Excerpt from Letters of George Meredith, Vol. 1 of 2: 1844-1881 Place, the rendezvous of many people eminent in litera ture and science, was always open to him. The same is true in regard to Mrs. Drummond of Fredley, Mr. And Mrs. Frederick Jameson, and Mr. And Mrs. H. G. Plimmer, at whose house many of his happiest later days were spent. Very gratefully to be remembered are Mrs. Christopher Wilson and Sir Trevor and Lady Lawrence. I have further to express my sincere thanks to all those who have so readily placed at my disposition the bulk of the letters printed in these volumes. To my friends J. M. Barrie, Thomas Seccombe and Edward Hutton I am indebted for much advice and assistance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Aspects of English Negation
Aspects of English Negation

Author: Yoko Iyeiri

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 9027232318

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This book contains eleven carefully selected papers, all discussing negative constructions in English. The aim of this volume is to bring together empirical research into the development of English negation and analyses of syntactic variations in Present-day English negation. The first part "Aspects of Negation in the History of English" includes six contributions, that focus on the usages of the negative adverbs ne and not, the decline of negative concord, and the development of the auxiliary do in negation. Most of the themes discussed here are then linked to the second part "Aspects of Negation in Present-day English". Especially, the issue of negative concord is repeatedly explored by three of the five papers in this part, one related to British English dialects in general, another to Tyneside English, and the other to African American Vernacular English. This book uniquely highlights the importance of continuity from Old English to Present-day English, while, in its introduction, it provides a useful detailed survey of previous studies on English negation.

Selected Letters of Siegfried Sassoon and Edmund Blunden, 19191967 Vol 2
Selected Letters of Siegfried Sassoon and Edmund Blunden, 19191967 Vol 2

Author: Carol Z Rothkopf

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-09-10

Total Pages: 731

ISBN-13: 1000161862

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Of the 16 WWI poets memorialized in Westminster Abbey, two were destined to become lifelong friends. Although both served on the Western Front, it was not until 1919 that Siegfried Sassoon received his first letter from Edmund Blunden. This collection of Sassoon and Blunden’s correspondence contains more than 1,000 letters, cards and telegrams.