GEORGE MEREDITH.
“The ordinary ‘great man’ pi l letters,” writes Mr 0. M. Trevelyan in the “Nation,” “after the period of over-adulation and lying on all draw* ing-room tables, and after the subsequent period of reaction and undue reprisals, will re-emerge, not indeed to be read by the 1 great public ’ or even by the literary public as a whole, but to be loved by those individual men and women who happen to like his particular kind of writing—whether those individuals are numbered by tens of thousands, by thousands, or only by hundreds. Literature, especially English literature, has many mansions; wo can none of us inhabit them all, and there is no reason for us. to break the windows of those where we personally do not choose to live. Even to-day George .Meredith gives intense pleasure to thousands of quiet people who do not trouble to ask whether they are in the vogue or not. ft is through such readers that our literary civilisation really survives, much more than through the proclaimers of the latest vogue and its lesser sectaries.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1928, Page 1
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180GEORGE MEREDITH. Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1928, Page 1
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