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An objective aural-relative in Middlemarch.(George Eliot's novel)(Critical essay)

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From: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
Date: 20070922
Author:Capuano, Peter J.

 
  Jubal ... watched the hammer, till his eyes, 
  No longer following its fall or rise, 
  Seemed glad with something that they could not see, 
  But only listened to--some melody, 
  Wherein dumb longings inward speech had found, 
  Won from the common store of struggling sound. 
  --George Eliot, "The Legend of Jubal" (1) 

Midland England in the pre-Reform years may indeed look like the "very tuneless" place that Rosamond Vincy so positively assures Tertius Lydgate it is when they meet at the outset of Middlemarch (1871-72). (2) She is correct. As Rosamond laments, "there are ...

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