In 1864, George Eliot began writing her longest poem, "The Spanish Gypsy". This project exhausted her, and her partner took the manuscript away from her for fear it was making her ill. This work explains what Eliot read to research the poem, which parts caused her particular problems and summarises the poem's critical reception.
Part 1 The Spanish Gypsy; Chapter I Book I; Chapter II Book II; Chapter III Book III; Chapter IV Book IV; Chapter V Book V;
'[an] invaluable edition ... Pickering & Chatto are to be congratulated in publishing one of George Eliot's hitherto least available but nevertheless highly significant texts.' The Year's Work in English Studies 'This comprehensively annotated edition of Eliot's long dramatic poem continues the exemplary work of van den Broek and Baker in their definitive "Complete Shorter Poetry of George Eliot", 2 vols (Pickering & Chatto, 2005).' George Eliot - George Henry Lewes Studies