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"The greatest Victorian" in the new century: the enduring relevance of Walter Bagehot's commentary on literature, scholarship, and public life.
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March 22, 2004|
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In 1937, one year after he published his landmark study, Victorian England: Portrait of an Age, George M. Young contributed a pair of essays to the Spectator in which he identifies Walter Bagehot as "The Greatest Victorian" from a list that included George Eliot, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, and Charles Darwin. "We are looking for a man who was in and of his age and who could have been of no other," Young states in his essay,
a man with sympathy to share, and genius, to judge, its sentiments and movements: a man not too illustrious or too ...
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