This collection of lectures, broadcasts, reviews, and articles
(several of which have not previously been published) embraces many
aspects of the English literary scene in the middle of the
nineteenth century. Though various in origin the collection has
this unity: it has been the constant concern of its authors for
many years that the great and lasting contribution of the
mid-Victorian period to our literature should be fully vindicated,
and its appraisal based upon secure foundations of critical
scholarship. The book has moreover an obvious connection with the
volume on the mid-nineteenth century which the Tillotsons are
preparing for the Oxford History of English Literature, though the
items included here are not samples of that history but rather
'milestones, or halting places, in the several ways that lead
towards it'. There are important studies of Carlyle, John Henry
Newman, Tennyson, Clough, Matthew Arnold, and George Eliot. These,
however, represent only one side of the book's interest, for there
are accounts of writers famous in their day, as Harriett Mozley and
Charlotte M. Yonge, but since the cross-currents at work in the
period, notably 'Writers and Readers in 1851', which vividly convey
much of the quality of the momentous years in which so many
masterpieces were produced. At several points indeed the volume
demonstrates that the truth about the literature of the nineteenth
century, in distinction (for the most part) to that of earlier
centuries, may be recovered complete.
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