With Friend and Book

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012 - 116 páginas
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1892 Excerpt: ... THE POETRY OF GEORGE MEREDITH. BJBF' course we talked of poetry that evening at Tbjm home; but not of Sir Philip Sidney's, nor yet Irfl of George Herbert's; for we had both been reading in sundry little volumes of late what had been done in this way by George Meredith, and to him and his verse we gave our souls and our talk. We were sorry (at least, we said so, with an inward chuckle of satisfaction; for, being lovers of rare books, both of us, we were comfortably and selfishly proud of our 1851 volumes (Of our author's poems) that Mr. Meredith had not seen fit to reprint his earliest verse, so that all who read his novels might make the full study of his entire productions, which at present is almost impossible, on account of the scarcity of this first book. And how ardently his admirers cherish copies of his verse-volumes! A writer in the Athenieum for July 25, 1885, positively revels in the possession of " the very scarce little collection published in 1851, by J. W. Parker and Sons;" and Grant Allen, in a comparatively recent number of the American Magazine, in a list of prizes of this kind, numbers the Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth, ' with my wife's name inscribed on the fly-leaf by the very hand of our dear neighbour at Box Hill, George Meredith." And why not confess it? Wilson, although he also has a copy of the 185: volume, as well as of that of 1862, envies, in a thoroughly straightforward manner, my ownership of Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside; with Poems and Ballads; for it is a corrected copy, done by the "very hand" of the author, as Grant Allen would say; and, furthermore, it bears upon the title-page the autograph inscription, "T. A. Trollope, from the author." And so our talk began: --Wilson.--It always appears to me that...

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