The Poetry of Meredith (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: George Meredith
- First Published: 1851
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Literature, Poetry or poets, England or English people, Victorian era or Victorianism
Critical Evaluation:
Best known as the author of fourteen novels, most notably THE ORDEAL OF RICHARD FEVEREL and THE EGOIST, George Meredith may eventually find a securer place in literary history as a poet. MODERN LOVE, a sequence of poems depicting the breakdown of a marriage, is already acknowledged as a masterwork of late Victorian verse, but in addition Meredith’s mythological poems in praise of Earth are entirely worthy of more acclaim than they have received. A few critics, among them Douglas Bush and Siegfried Sassoon, have praised these poems,...
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