Poems

As if a strong, delightful water that we knew only as a river appeared in the character of a fountain; as if one whom we had wondered at as a good walker or inexhaustible pedestrian, began to dance; as if Mr. Bright, in the middle of a public meeting, were to oblige the company with a song, - no, no, not like that exactly, but like something quite new, - is the appearance of George Eliot in the character of a poet. ' The Spanish Gypsy,' a poem in five books, originally written, as a prefatory note informs us, in the winter of 1864-65, and, after a visit to Spain in 1867, rewritten and amplified, dominates this book. This great poems alone spans across three hundred and fifty octavo pages. But there are many more works included, only to mention 'Armgart', 'How Lisa Loved The King', 'Stradivarius' and many more.