The history and progress of the world . ievedher fame and presented a memorable picture of literaryfailure in the scholar Casaubon, said to be drawn fromMark Pattison, and of womans devotion to a fadingideal in the lovely Dorothea. In Daniel Deronda(1876) she embodied a noble conception of the modernJew, and commended his aspirations on behalf of hisrace. But stubborn English opinion declined to bemoved. Still less did it care for The Impressions ofTheophrastus Such (1878), a volume of essays. died in 1878, and in May, 1880, Miss Evans wasformally married to John Walter Cross, but die
The history and progress of the world . ievedher fame and presented a memorable picture of literaryfailure in the scholar Casaubon, said to be drawn fromMark Pattison, and of womans devotion to a fadingideal in the lovely Dorothea. In Daniel Deronda(1876) she embodied a noble conception of the modernJew, and commended his aspirations on behalf of hisrace. But stubborn English opinion declined to bemoved. Still less did it care for The Impressions ofTheophrastus Such (1878), a volume of essays. died in 1878, and in May, 1880, Miss Evans wasformally married to John Walter Cross, but died in thefollowing December. Mr. Cross published her biog-raphy, but it gives an inadequate idea of this woman ofgenius. Her earliest books were faithful delineations ofcharacters that had been familiar to her youth, andabounded in genuine humor. Her later books weremore ambitious studies of the complex characters of alarger society, highly philosophical, but not finally satis-fying. Her poems never enjoyed public favor. COPYRIGHT, 1900. E. Blair Leigmton, Pinx ROMOLA AND HER FATHER POETRY OF THE EARLY VICTORIAN PERIOD After the great and sudden outburst of song in theearly years of the Century there came a season of com-parative lull. No thrilling voice was added to the con-cert, but some of the older songsters were still heard. Itwas hardly until Tennyson was made poet laureate on thedeath of Wordsworth (1850) that his popularity had shown himself a disciple of Keats, worshipingbeauty, and had been charged by the critics with effemi-nacy. But Locksley Hall (1842), The Princess(1847), and the grand elegy, In Memoriam (1850),testified to his original power. Henceforth his utter-ances became the acknowledged poetic expression ofEnglish feeling. Browning, three years younger, wasstill slower in obtaining popular recognition. Thoughhe early won a few earnest devotees, his name and worksdid not become familiar to the public until 1869, whenThe Ring and the Book, perhaps par
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