The Essays of George Eliot: Large Print

By: Eliot, George

As soon as the closing of the Great Exhibition afforded a reasonable hope that there wouldonce more be a reading public, "The Life of Sterling" appeared. A new work by Carlyle mustalways be among the literary births eagerly chronicled by the journals and greeted by thepublic. In a book of such parentage we care less about the subject than about its treatment, just as we think the "Portrait of a Lord" worth studying if it come from the pencil of aVandyck. The life of John Sterling, however, has intrinsic interest, even if it be viewedsimply as the struggle of a restless aspiring soul, yearning to leave a distinct impress ofitself on the spiritual development of humanity, with that fell disease which, with arefinement of torture, heightens the susceptibility and activity of the faculties, while itundermines their creative force. Sterling, moreover, was a man thoroughly in earnest, towhom poetry and philosophy were not merely another form of paper currency or a ladderto fame, but an end in themselves-one of those finer spirits with whom, amid the jar andhubbub of our daily life,"The melodies abideOf the everlasting chime."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08GLJ1JTH
• ISBN13: 9798678576859
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.0"