ABSTRACT

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling the student and researcher to read the material themselves.

chapter |26 pages

Introduction

part |12 pages

Poems

chapter |2 pages

Unsigned review, Leader

ii, 5 July 1851

chapter |2 pages

Unsigned review, Spectator

xxiv, 22 August 1851

chapter |1 pages

J. A. Heraud, Athenaeum

No. 1243, 23 August 1851

chapter |4 pages

W. M. Rossetti, Critic

x, 5 November 1851; signed ‘W.M.R.'

chapter |3 pages

Charles Kingsley, Fraser's Magazine

xliv, December 1851

part |11 pages

The Shaving of Shagpat

chapter |2 pages

Unsigned review, Critic

xv, 1 January 1856

chapter |2 pages

George Eliot, Leader

vii, 5 January 1856

chapter |3 pages

G. H. Lewes, Saturday Review

i, 19 January 1856

chapter |1 pages

Unsigned review, Idler

March 1856

chapter |2 pages

George Eliot, Westminster Review

xvii, April 1856

chapter |1 pages

Unsigned review, New Quarterly Review

v, April 1856

part |11 pages

Farina

chapter |2 pages

Unsigned review, Spectator

xxx, 22 August 1857

chapter |4 pages

Unsigned review, Saturday Review

iii, 29 August 1857

chapter |1 pages

Unsigned notice, Critic

xvi, 1 September 1857

chapter |3 pages

Meredith, Westminster Review

xii, October 1857

chapter |2 pages

H. F. Chorley, Athenaeum

No. 1570, 28 November 1857

part |25 pages

The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

chapter |2 pages

Unsigned review, Leader

x, 2 July 1859

chapter |5 pages

Unsigned review, Critic

xix, 2 July 1859

chapter |1 pages

G. E. Jewsbury, Athenaeum

No. 1654, 9 July 1859

chapter |3 pages

Unsigned review, Spectator

xxxii, 9 July 1859

chapter |5 pages

Unsigned review, Saturday Review

viii, 9 July 1859

chapter |1 pages

Unsigned review, Illustrated London News

xxv, 13 August 1859

chapter |7 pages

Samuel Lucas, The Times

Friday, 14 October 1859

chapter |1 pages

Unsigned review, Westminster Review

xvi, October 1859

part |6 pages

Evan Harrington

chapter |2 pages

Unsigned review, Spectator

xxxiv, 19 January 1861

chapter |4 pages

Unsigned review, Saturday Review

xi, 19 January 1861

part |16 pages

Modern Love and other Poems

chapter |5 pages

R. H. Hutton, Spectator

xxxv, 24 May 1862

chapter |3 pages

A. C. Swinburne, a reply to R. H. Hutton, Spectator

xxxv, 7 June 1862

chapter |4 pages

J. W. Marston, Athenaeum

No. 1805, 31 May 1862

chapter |4 pages

Unsigned review, Saturday Review

xvi, 24 October 1863

part |28 pages

Sandra Belloni

chapter |4 pages

Richard Garnett, Reader

iii, 23 April 1864; signed ‘G'

chapter |2 pages

G. E. Jewsbury, Athenaeum

No. 1905, 30 April 1864

chapter |5 pages

Mrs Hardman, Saturday Review

xvii, 28 May 1864

chapter |3 pages

Unsigned review, Westminster Review

xxvi, July 1864

chapter |3 pages

Unsigned review, Examiner

No. 2947, 23 July 1864

part |11 pages

Rhoda Fleming

chapter |3 pages

J. C. Jeaffreson, Athenaeum

No. 1981, 14 October 1865

chapter |6 pages

Unsigned review, Saturday Review

xx, 14 October 1865

chapter |2 pages

Unsigned review, Westminster Review

xxix, January 1866

part |8 pages

Vittoria

chapter |6 pages

Unsigned review, Saturday Review

xxiii, 2 February 1867

chapter |2 pages

G. E. Jewsbury, Athenaeum

No. 2052, 23 February 1867

part |12 pages

The Adventures of Harry Richmond

chapter |3 pages

A. J. Butler, Athenaeum

No. 2297, 4 November 1871

chapter |2 pages

Unsigned review, Examiner

No. 3328, 11 November 1871

chapter |5 pages

R. H. Hutton, Spectator

xlv, 20 January 1872

chapter |1 pages

Unsigned review, Westminster Review

xli, January 1872

chapter |1 pages

Unsigned notice, Vanity Fair

Vii, 23 march 1872

part |35 pages

Beauchamp's Career

chapter |4 pages

A. J. Butler, Athenaeum

No. 2514, 1 January 1876

chapter |2 pages

Review, Examiner

No. 3545, 8 January 1876; signed ‘G.B.S.'

chapter |3 pages

A. I. Shand, The Times

8 January 1876

chapter |2 pages

R. F. Littledale, Academy

15 January 1876

chapter |4 pages

Unsigned review, Canadian Monthly

ix, April 1876

chapter |6 pages

J. C. Carr, Saturday Review

xli, 13 May 1876

chapter |4 pages

James Thomson, Secularist

i, 3 June 1876

part |39 pages

The Egoist

chapter |4 pages

Unsigned review, Examiner

No. 3744, 1 November 1879

chapter |5 pages

W. E. Henley, Athenaeum

No. 2714, 1 November 1879

chapter |5 pages

R. H. Hutton, Spectator

lii, 1 November 1879

chapter |3 pages

W. E. Henley, Pall Mall Gazette

xxx, 3 November 1879

chapter |4 pages

Unsigned review, Saturday Review

xlviii, 15 November 1879

chapter |2 pages

W. E. Henley, Academy

vi, 22 November 1879

chapter |6 pages

James Thomson, Cope's Tobacco Plant

January 1880; signed ‘Sigvat'

chapter |5 pages

Unsigned review, New Quarterly Magazine

N.S., iii, January 1880

chapter |5 pages

Margaret Oliphant, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

cxxviii, September 1880

part |16 pages

Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth

chapter |4 pages

Unsigned review, St. James's Gazette

vi, 25 June 1883

chapter |4 pages

Unsigned review, Pall Mall Gazette

xxxviii, 29 June 1883

chapter |4 pages

Mark Pattison, Academy

xxiv, 21 July 1883

chapter |2 pages

Alice Meynell, Merry England

i, August 1883

chapter |2 pages

W. P. Ker, Contemporary Review

xliv, September 1883

part |34 pages

Diana of the Crossways

chapter |6 pages

W. E. Henley, Athenaeum

No. 2994, 14 March 1885

chapter |2 pages

C. Monkhouse, Saturday Review

lx, 21 March 1885

chapter |4 pages

Unsigned review, Pall Mall Gazette

xli, 28 March 1885

chapter |2 pages

Unsigned review, Illustrated London News

lxxxvi, 28 March 1885

chapter |4 pages

F. V. Dickins, Spectator

lviii, 18 April 1885

chapter |5 pages

Arthur Symons, Time

N.S., i, May 1885

chapter |1 pages

Unsigned review, The Times

1 June 1885

part |53 pages

Ballads and Poems of Tragic Life

chapter |4 pages

Unsigned review, Pall Mall Gazette

xlv, 26 May 1887

chapter |3 pages

W. E. Henley, Athenaeum

No. 3111, 11 June 1887

chapter |5 pages

Unsigned review, Westminster Review

cxxviii, September 1887

chapter |8 pages

G. P. Baker, Jnr, on Meredith as a Philosophical Novelist

Harvard Monthly, June 1887

chapter |2 pages

Meredith's reply to G. P. Baker

22 July 1887

chapter |1 pages

Oscar Wilde on Meredith

1888–91

part |20 pages

One of Our Conquerors

chapter |3 pages

Unsigned review, Anti-Jacobin

i, 25 April 1891

chapter |5 pages

H. S. Wilson, Athenaeum

No. 3314, 2 May 1891

chapter |4 pages

Unsigned review, The Times

18 May 1891

chapter |2 pages

Unsigned review, Saturday Review

lxxi, 23 May 1891

chapter |3 pages

J. A. Noble, in Spectator

lxvi, 30 May 1891

chapter |3 pages

Lionel Johnson, in the Academy

xxxix, 13 June 1891

part |19 pages

The Empty Purse

chapter |4 pages

Unsigned review, Saturday Review

lxxiv, 17 December 1892

chapter |15 pages

Meredith as a story-teller

1893

part |46 pages

Lord Ormont and His Amint

chapter |4 pages

Unsigned review, Saturday Review

lxxviii, 7 July 1894

chapter |4 pages

Lionel Johnson, in Academy

xlv, 7 July 1894

chapter |4 pages

J. Stuart, in Athenaeum

No. 3481, 14 July 1894

chapter |3 pages

Unsigned review, Pall Mall Gazette

lix, 20 July 1894

chapter |3 pages

J. A. Noble, in Spectator

lxxiii, 4 August 1894

chapter |5 pages

Review, Bookman

vii, August 1894; signed ‘G-Y'

chapter |1 pages

Unsigned review, Cosmopolitan (New York)

October 1894

chapter |3 pages

Unsigned review, Literary World (Boston)

8 September 1895

part |36 pages

The Amazing Marriage

chapter |3 pages

Edmund Gosse, in St. James's Gazette

xxxi, November 1895

chapter |4 pages

B. Williams, from a review in the Athenaeum

No. 3553, 30 November 1895

chapter |3 pages

Alice Meynell, Illustrated London News

cvii, 14 December 1895

chapter |2 pages

Unsigned review, Saturday Review

lxxx, 21 December 1895

chapter |4 pages

Unsigned review, Pall Mall Gazette

lxi, 23 December 1895

chapter |2 pages

Unsigned review, Bookman

x, January 1896

chapter |5 pages

W. E. Garrett Fisher, from a review in the Academy

xlix, 11 January 1896

chapter |1 pages

J. A. Noble, Spectator

lxxvi, January 1896

part |12 pages

Odes in Contribution to the Song of French History

chapter |2 pages

Francis Thompson, Academy

liii, 12 March 1898

chapter |4 pages

Unsigned review, Saturday Review

lxxxvi, 12 November 1898

chapter |4 pages

Unsigned review, Literature

ii, 26 November 1898

chapter |2 pages

Owen Seaman, Athenaeum

No. 3713, 24 December 1898

part |43 pages

A Reading of Life

chapter |3 pages

Unsigned review, Academy

lx, 29 June 1901

chapter |4 pages

Unsigned review, Saturday Review

xcii, 13 July 1901

chapter |4 pages

Arthur Symons, Athenaeum

No. 3847, 20 July 1901

chapter |6 pages

Meredith in perspective

1909

chapter |16 pages

A Final Appreciation

chapter |1 pages

H. G. Wells on One of Our Conquerors in The New Machiavelli

1911; ‘Adolescence', 7