George Meredith (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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George Meredith wrote more than one dozen novels, including The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859), The Egoist (1879), and Diana of the Crossways (1885). His novels attack egoism, or excessive self-importance, and sentimentality, or unfounded pride in fine sensibility. The characters and situations presented in Meredith’s novels are fictions, but they are often drawn, sometimes closely, from real people and actual incidents. Meredith’s novels have been praised for their descriptions of society and their characterizations, especially...
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