Views and Reviews: Essays in appreciation: Literature
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- VIEWS AND REVIEWS
- PREFATORY
- DICKENS
- A ‘Frightful Minus’
- His Method.
- His Development.
- His Results.
- Ave atque Vale.
- THACKERAY
- His Worshippers.
- His Critics.
- Which is Right?
- His Style.
- His Mission.
- DISRAELI
- His Novels.
- A Contrast.
- His Backgrounds.
- His Men and Women.
- His Style.
- His Oratory.
- His Speeches as Literature.
- The Great Earl.
- ALEXANDRE DUMAS
- His Components.
- Himself.
- At Least.
- His Monument.
- GEORGE MEREDITH
- His Qualities.
- His Defects.
- Another Way.
- Rhoda Fleming.
- The Tragic Comedians.
- The Egoist.
- In Metre.
- The Fashion of Art.
- BYRON
- Byron and the World.
- Byron and Wordsworth.
- HUGO
- His Critics.
- Some Causes and Effects.
- Environment.
- Equipment and Achievement.
- His Diary.
- For and Against.
- What Lives of Him.
- HEINE
- The Villainy Translation.
- The Proof of It.
- MATTHEW ARNOLD
- His Verse.
- His Failure.
- His Triumphs.
- His Prose.
- HOMER AND THEOCRITUS
- The Odyssey.
- The Idylls.
- Old Lamps and New.
- RABELAIS
- His Essence.
- His Secret.
- SHAKESPEARE
- A Parallel.
- SIDNEY
- His Expression of Life.
- His Fame.
- TOURNEUR
- His Style.
- His Matter.
- WALTON
- The Compleat Angler.
- Master Piscator.
- HERRICK
- His Muse.
- His Moral.
- His Piety.
- LOCKER
- His Qualities.
- His Effect.
- BANVILLE
- His Nature.
- His Art.
- DOBSON
- Method and Effect.
- BERLIOZ
- The Critic.
- A Prototype.
- His Theory of Autobiography.
- GEORGE ELIOT
- The Ideal.
- The Real.
- Appreciations.
- BORROW
- His Vocation.
- Ideals and Achievements.
- Himself.
- BALZAC
- Under which King?
- The Fact.
- LABICHE
- Teniers or Daumier?
- Labiche.
- CHAMPFLEURY
- The Man.
- The Writer.
- LONGFELLOW
- Sea Poets.
- Longfellow.
- TENNYSON
- St. Agnes’ Eve.
- Indian Summer.
- His Mastership.
- GORDON HAKE
- Aim and Equipment.
- LANDOR
- Anti-Landor.
- His Drama.
- HOOD
- How Much of Him?
- Death’s Jest-Book.
- His Immortal Part.
- LEVER
- How He Lived.
- What He Was.
- How He Wrote.
- JEFFERIES
- His Virtue.
- His Limitation.
- The General.
- Last Words.
- GAY
- The Fabulist.
- The Moralist.
- After All.
- ESSAYS AND ESSAYISTS
- The Good of Them.
- Generalities.
- In Particular.
- BOSWELL
- His Destiny.
- His Critic.
- Himself.
- CONGREVE
- His Biographers and Critics.
- The Real Congreve.
- The Dramatist.
- The Writer.
- ARABIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS
- Its Romance.
- Its Comedy.
- Sacer Vates.
- RICHARDSON
- His Fortune.
- Pamela.
- Grandison.
- Clarissa.
- TOLSTOÏ
- The Man and the Artist.
- Ivan Iliitch.
- War and Peace.
- FIELDING
- Illusions.
- Facts.
- The Worst of It.
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