Alfred George Gardiner
Life and Works
Alfred George Gardiner (1865-1946), who was born at Chelmsford in Essex in England, is one of the most popular essayists of the modern age. He started his literary career as a journalist, joining the staff of the Essex Country Chronicle and the Northern Daily Telegraph. The first fifteen years of his journalistic career were years of drudgery and hardship but during this apprenticeship, he developed his style and his artistic powers. At the age of thirty-seven, he was appointed editor of the Daily News, London, and held the appointment till 1919. One of the last of the great editors, he was also one of the last periodical essayist with the gift of combining lucidity, readability, and a natural graceful prose style. The style is as lucid and plain as common water; it runs like water off a duck’s back. Under the pseudonym, Alpha of the Plough, he made regular contributions to the Daily News, the Manchester Evening News, the Glasgow Citizen, and the Star. Gardiner’s eminence among journalists was recognized by his election to the Presidentship of the Institute of Journalists in 1915. Prominent among his works under his pen- name are Pebbles on the Shore (1916), Leaves in the Wind (1918), Windfalls (1920), and Many Furrows (1924). Under his own name he wrote Prophets, Priests and Kings (1908 : essays on eminent contemporaries), Pillars of Society (1913), War Words (1915), Sir William Harcourt (1922), George through both the World War and died in 1946. Cadbury (1923) and Certain People of Importance (1926). Gardiner lived
Alfred G. Gardiner is one of the most lovable and delightful writers of the periodical essay. His essays and sketches were invariably delightful representations of the little but socially important incidents from daily life. His essays are the light, easy talk of a thoughtful man. He writes with ease, confidence and grace if he is in the humour for writing and then the choice of the subject will not come in his way as he himself says in his essay on Catching the Train : “And, after all, what does the subject matter ? Any peg will do to hang your coat on. The hat is the thing.” For Gardiner any subject was grist to his mill. The subject matter of his essays may be trifling but he never lets the attention of the reader flag, and this he does by means of his intimate, confessional style. To quote W. L. Phelps : “It is an intimate confessional style of composition, where the writer takes the reader into confidence, and talks as if to only one listener talks to, about things often essentially trivial, and yet making them for the moment interesting by the charm of the speaker’s manner.
ए. जी. गार्डिनर : जीवन-परिचय और कृतियाँ
ए. जी. गार्डिनर (1865-1946) जो इंग्लैण्ड में Essex में Chelmsford में पैदा हुआ था, आधुनिक युग के सबसे अधिक प्रसिद्ध निबन्ध लेखकों में से एक थे। उन्होंने अपना साहित्यिक जीवन एक पत्रकार के रूप में प्रारम्भ किया और Essex Country Chronicle तथा The Northern Daily Telegraph के स्टॉफ में सम्मिलित हो गया। उनके पत्रकार के प्रथम पन्द्रह वर्ष कठिनाई और संघर्ष में व्यतीत हुए और इस बीच उसने इस काल में अपनी शैली और कलात्मक शक्ति को उन्नत कर लिया। 37 वर्ष की आयु में इन्हें The Daily News, London का सम्पादक नियुक्त किया गया और इसमें 1919 ई. तक कार्य किया। वह उस समय के सबसे अच्छे पत्रकारों में से एक थे। उनकी लेखन शैली स्पष्ट और शानदार थी। उन्होंने कई पत्र-पत्रिकाओं में कार्य किया।
कृतियाँ-उन्होंने 1916 में ‘Pebbles on the Shore’, 1918 में ‘Leaves in theWind’, 1920 में Windfalls’ और 1924 में ‘Many Furrows’ लिखा। अपने नाम से उन्होंने 1908 में ‘Prophets, Preistand King’, 1913 में ‘Pillers of Society’, 1915 में ‘War Words’, 1922 में Sir William Harcourt’, 1923 में ‘George Cadbury’, 1926 में ‘Certain People of Importance’ लिखे। गार्डिनर दोनों विश्वयुद्धों के समय तक जीवित रहा। उसकी मृत्यु 1946 ई. में हुई।
A.G.Gardiner periodical essay के अच्छे लेखकों में से एक हैं। उनके निबन्ध और स्कैचिज दैनिक जीवन से सम्बन्धित हैं। वे ऐसे निबन्धकार हैं जिन्होंने अपने लेखन में अपने व्यक्तित्व को अभिव्यक्ति दी। वे प्रजातान्त्रिक मूल्यों के समर्थक थे और उन्होंने लोगों को नैतिक आचरण और जीवन शैली को सुधारने के लिए बहुत कुछ किया। उनकी भाषा सरल, शुद्ध, मस्त और हल्की-फुल्की होती है। वे आराम से, विश्वास के साथ लिखते हैं। वे स्वयं को एक मित्र के रूप में प्रस्तुत करते हैं। जो मुद्दे और विषय गार्डिनर ने अपने निबन्धों में उठाए, उनका प्रभाव सार्वभौमिक है। ‘ऑल अबाउट ए डॉग’ में उन्होंने दिखाया है कि नियम मानव जाति की सुविधा के लिए बनते हैं।
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