EPITAPH ON GEORGE MOORE BY CHARLES MORGAN 1935 Death-Mask This essay on an artist who loved France is dedicated by its author to EDMOND JALOUX in friendship and admiration, and because an armistice, even of seventeen years, cannot end a natural alliance between two peoples among whom it is still not criminal to think. NOTE I wish to express my gratitude to the artist, Professor Henry Tonks, and to the Director of the National Gallery, Millbank The Tate Gallery, for their permission to reproduce Saturday Evening at the Vale ...
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EPITAPH ON GEORGE MOORE BY CHARLES MORGAN 1935 Death-Mask This essay on an artist who loved France is dedicated by its author to EDMOND JALOUX in friendship and admiration, and because an armistice, even of seventeen years, cannot end a natural alliance between two peoples among whom it is still not criminal to think. NOTE I wish to express my gratitude to the artist, Professor Henry Tonks, and to the Director of the National Gallery, Millbank The Tate Gallery, for their permission to reproduce Saturday Evening at the Vale to George Moore's literary executor, Mr C. S, Medley, for allowing me to reproduce the death mask and, generally, to Professor Tonks, Mr Medley and many others among Moore's friends for the kindness they shewed and the help they gave me when my task was the full biography since abandoned. A few paragraphs in this essay, relating to George Moore's Irish stories and to In Single Strictness, have their origin in papers contributed by me to The Times and The Times Literary Supplement. I am grateful to the proprietors of The Times for their permission to make use of this material. My acknowledgment is due also to the Editor of The Fortnightly Review, in whose columns the essay appeared in abbreviated form, and to the Royal Society of Literature for their invitation to read it on 20 February 1935. CM, ILLUSTRATIONS George Moore Death-Mask Frontispiece Saturday Evening at the Vale facing p. 2 From the Painting by Henry Tonks in the Tate Gallery 1 GEORGE MOORE was born on 24 Feb ruary 1852 and died in Ebury-street on 21 January 1933. He was old and aloof he belonged to no clique his habit of publishing his work in limited editions had for many years restricted publicknowledge of him. When he was taken to Golders Green on his way to burial in Ireland, a few great painters followed him the Prime Minister, a Nonconformist and a Socialist, found it in his heart and in his honour to do this last duty to a pagan aristocrat who was dead but English literature abstained. That neglect is surprising, for Moore wrote an autobiography that is entitled to rank with the Confessions of Rousseau, and, in his version of Daphnis and Chloe, a modern translation from an ancient writer which stands with Paters and with Adlingtons translation of The Golden Ass. His Avowals, however sharply one may dissent from his judgment of such men as Tolstoy to whom he was temperamentally opposed, is a landmark in the history of criticism, even what we may consider its errors having a vitality and an independence more valuable than the safer com promises of other men. All this is but a small part of MM i i his achievement. Twice George Moore re-created the English novel first in 1 894 when Esther Waters gave us our liberty, and again ten years later when there began that series of tales, extending from The Lake through The Brook Kerith to Aphrodite in Aulis, in which we may discover, if we will, a new cadence and discipline, a new reconciliation between the written and the spoken word. THESE are the attainments of the artist. The man was not less remarkable. Several years before his death, he invited me to study with him to be his biographer, and so appointed me in his will. Among his reasons for this was his desire that his biography should be, not a tomb-stone in two volumes but, as he said, a true novel a story of his life based, as far as was humanly possible, upon a novelistscomplete knowledge and intuitive under standing of his subject, and told with that indifference to all but aesthetic consequence by which a story teller is fortified. To write such a book it would be necessary for me to see him as he had seen himself at 2 different rimes of his life, for, he said, the story you have to tell is not of a man who wrote this book or that anyone can criticize my work, and better in a hundred years than now...
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Ex-Library. Moore was an Irish novelist whose writings influenced James Joyce. Includes two full page illustrations. Ex-library with minimal markings, no dustjacket.
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Unamed. Very Good. A First Edition copy of this biographical work by Charles Morgan titled 'Epitaph on George Moore'. First Edition. Collated complete. Charles Langbridge Morgan (1894 –1958), was an English-born playwright and novelist of English and Welsh parentage. He was awarded the Legion of Honour in 1936, a promotion in 1945, and was elected a member of the Institut de France in 1949. From 1953 he was the president of International PEN. While Morgan enjoyed an immense reputation during his lifetime and was awarded the 1940 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, he was often criticised for excessive seriousness, and is now rather neglected; he once claimed that the "sense of humour by which we are ruled avoids emotion and vision and grandeur of spirit as a weevil avoids the sun. It has banished tragedy from our theatre, eloquence from our debates, glory from our years of peace, splendour from our wars..." The character Gerard Challis in Stella Gibbons"s Westwood is thought to be a caricature of him. The subject of this book, George Augustus Moore (1852 –1933) was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist. Moore came from a Roman Catholic landed family. He originally wanted to be a painter, and studied art in Paris during the 1870s. There, he befriended many of the leading French artists and writers of the day. In a quarter cream cloth binding with marbled boards. Externally generally smart, with mild wear to the extremities, and minor bumping. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with only some very light spotting. Very Good.
