In this volume of selected letters of the novelist and poet George Meredith (1828-1909), the editor has included letters with such figures as Virginia Woolf (Stephen at the time), Paul Valery, Thomas Carlyle, Madame Daudet, Edmund Gosse, Alfred Tennyson, James Thomson and many others. The letters, most of them previously unpublished, reveal the myriad world of Meredith's life and thought. The selection includes the two earliest letters extant written by Meredith just after he had left Neuwied, his school in Germany. It also includes Meredith's first letter to Chapman & Hall concerning his project for the publication of his first volume of verse, and another Meredith wrote to the same publisher in connection with a cookery book which his first wife, Mary Ellen Peacock, was preparing for publication.
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I ordered this book, supposing it would be a selection of the most revealing and characterful of Meredith's letters, and was disappointed to find it is essentially a supplement to Cline's three-volume edition (1970), giving letters either omitted by Cline or printed in an incomplete form. Most of the new letters are short and of limited interest, though the annotation by Shaheen (the author of one of the best studies of the novels) is impressively learned and generally reliable. This book is essential reading for the Meredith specialist, but cannot be recommended to the general reader. Meredith was too reserved to be a great letter-writer, comparable to Cowper or Keats; but his style, vigorous and free of cliche, is as delightful in his letters as in his novels. The best place to begin remains his son's two-volume edition of selected letters, published in 1912 and easy to pick up via the internet.
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