English studies . /^oyfyruy liSP English Studies JAMES DARMESTETER TRANSLATED BY MARY DARMESTETER (A. Mary F. Robinson) LondonT. FISHER UNWIN A-5-yff/^ lAll Rights ] ^i CONTENTS. PAGE Preface vii Joan of Arc in England 3 The French Revolution and Wordsworth • • • 73 The Life of George Eliot 97 George Eliots Letters iii Oliver Madox-Brown ^ . 153 The Poetry of Mary Robinson 171 Celtica X ... 181 Irish Literature and Ossian 195 Irish Political Ballads 217 Calcutta 237 TviTO Indian Books 281 A Mage in Paris , 301. PREFACE. Few Frenchmen, I believe, knew England sointimately
English studies . /^oyfyruy liSP English Studies JAMES DARMESTETER TRANSLATED BY MARY DARMESTETER (A. Mary F. Robinson) LondonT. FISHER UNWIN A-5-yff/^ lAll Rights ] ^i CONTENTS. PAGE Preface vii Joan of Arc in England 3 The French Revolution and Wordsworth • • • 73 The Life of George Eliot 97 George Eliots Letters iii Oliver Madox-Brown ^ . 153 The Poetry of Mary Robinson 171 Celtica X ... 181 Irish Literature and Ossian 195 Irish Political Ballads 217 Calcutta 237 TviTO Indian Books 281 A Mage in Paris , 301. PREFACE. Few Frenchmen, I believe, knew England sointimately as my husband. He had surprised theEnglish character by a happy guess-work beforehe set himself to study it. He looked at Englandfrom within. All that is serious, poetic, andunchangeably romantic in the heart of her wasrevealed to him by its deep reflection in her England sprung from Shakespeare and the Bible,the England of the Border Ballads and of GeorgeEliots novels, this England of sincere romance andstringent moral value, was known to him no less thanthe vast, productive, outward England of industry,commerce, politics, and colonisation. He interpretedthe soul of the one by the soul of the other, andunderstood them both. Nay, of the two races, so viii PREFACE. profoundly different, which divide the British Isles,he understood the enthusiastic viewy English-woman at least as well as the positive short, that which he grasped most firmly was justthat which escapes us almost always in the analysis of
Size: 1264px × 1976px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorwordsworthcollecti, booksubjectjoanofarcsaint14121431
