George Meredith

Excerpt from George Meredith

I may say further, more particularly, that I have, in the main, concerned myself more with Mr. Meredith's genius than his talent  if the dis tinction be not too old-fashioned  not the mass of his Work, but only that part of it which Icon sider peculiarly his own. Of his Mrs. Chumps and his Master Gammons I have had little to say, and my conscience smites me at the last moment that I have done rather shabby justice to the great Berry. From my point of view it matters little whether his country men are or are not as good as Mr. Hardy's, or whether the brogue of this or that supernumerary be correct; for, in my judgment, it is not by such characters that he is to stand or fall. They are the product of a talent that could turn itself to anything, we have had them before from others; but it is by his Sir Willoughby and his great women, types all his own, that he is to be judged.