Grey, Agnes | George Moore (essay date 1924)
George Moore (essay date 1924)
SOURCE: "Chapter XVII," in Conversations in Ebury Street, Chatto & Windus, 1969, pp. 211-23.
[In the following excerpt of a literary conversation originally published in 1924, Moore calls Agnes Grey "the most perfect prose narrative in English literature" and goes on to describe the story.]
- MOORE.
- … If Anne had written nothing but The Tenant of Wildfell Hall I should not have been able to predict the high place she would have taken in English letters. All I should have been able to say is: An inspiration that comes and goes like a dream. But, her first story, Agnes Grey, is the most perfect prose narrative in English literature.
- GOSSE.
- The most perfect prose narrative in English literature, and overlooked for fifty-old years!
- MOORE.
- The blindness of criticism should not surprise one as well acquainted with the history of...
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