The Creed of a Victorian Pagan

Harvard University Press has partnered with De Gruyter to make available for sale worldwide virtually all in-copyright HUP books that had become unavailable since their original publication. The 2,800 titles in the “e-ditions” program can be purchased individually as PDF eBooks or as hardcover reprint (“print-on-demand”) editions via the “Available from De Gruyter” link above. They are also available to institutions in ten separate subject-area packages that reflect the entire spectrum of the Press’s catalog. More about the E-ditions Program »

George Meredith, according to Mr. Chesterton, was perhaps the only man in the modern world who has almost had the high honor of rising out of the low estate of a Pantheist into the high estate of a Pagan. This subtle discrimination forms the starting point for Robert Peel’s brilliant essay, which points out the spiritual values in Meredith’s work and shows how Meredith’s eventual compromise offers to most readers of today a veritable refuge from which the common level of life can be viewed completely and clearly.