Gerald Bullett, “George Moore: A Cloistered Genius,” in John O’London’s Weekly (18 Jan. 1933)
| Bibliographical details: Gerald Bullett [obituary], ”George Moore: A Cloistered Genius,” in John O’London’s Weekly, XCVIII (18 Jan. 1933), pp.676-78 - here incomplete (p.678 missing; not seq.). The image given below is a copy of a cutting found among the papers of Sybil Le Brocquy [q.v.] held by her family and now in the possession of the editor of Ricorso, a grandson. The dates have been located in Helmut Gerber's Annotated Bibliography - as infra. The full text of Bullett's article is given in The Collected Short Stories of George Moore, Vol 4 [of 5], “Gender and Genre”, ed. Ann Heilmann & Mark Llewellyn (London: Routledge 2007), 456pp. |
Helmut E Gerber, ‘George Moore: An Annotated Bibliography of Writings About Him, Suppl. II’, in English Fiction in Translation, 4:2 1961, pp.30-32 cites as above — with remarks:
‘This enthusiastic appreciation of GM’s single-minded devotion to his art focusses on the “melodic line” of the later works. In The Brook Kerith, “the most surely immortal of his works,” GM shows himself to be the “greatest master” in English of that “pure narrative ... which imposes, without effort, a serene and luminous 32 unity on events discontinuous in time and space, narrative in which the moments of drama, the crises of action, instead of being sharpened into prominence as they are in the ordinary modern novel, are subdued to an even flow, a lovely monotone.” Quotes from A Story Teller’s Holiday to illustrate “the ease of his transitions, the art which enables him to pass from dialogue to action, from action to reflection, and so on and so on, without jerking at our attention, without breaking the melodic line.”’
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