Modern Love (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: George Meredith
- First Published: 1862
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric sequence
- Subjects: Husbands, Wives, Love or romance, Nineteenth century, Poetry or poets, Adultery, Women, Painting or painters, Victorian era or Victorianism
Critical Evaluation:
George Meredith’s Modern Love is his longest poem, and when it was published (a year after his wife died), it was seen as a disturbed work. It is a sonnet sequence consisting of fifty separate sonnets rhyming abba cddc effe ghhg. Meredith’s sixteen-line sonnets—a variation on the traditional fourteen-line sonnet—provide an apt structure for presenting interconnected but frequently contradictory feelings and reactions. Noted for their complex imagery, these sonnets present the speaker’s diverse emotions, which are constantly shifting,...
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