BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Collie, Michael. George Meredith: A Bibliography. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974, 287 p.

Descriptive primary bibliography.

Galland, René. George Meredith and British Criticism (1851-1902). Paris: Les Presses Françaises, 1923, 120 p.

Annotated bibliography containing primarily magazine reviews of Meredith's works, categorized by the poet's publications.

BIOGRAPHIES

Gretton, Mary Sturge. The Writings and Life of George Meredith: A Centenary Study. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1926, 250 p.

Literary biography paying close attention to Meredith's aims and his success in achieving them.

Lindsay, Jack. George Meredith: His Life and Work. London: The Bodley Head, 1956, 417 p.

Applies a Marxist approach to Meredith, focusing on the poet's politics and the social implications of his philosophy.

CRITICISM

Bartlett, Phyllis B. Introduction to The Poems of George Meredith, edited by Phyllis B. Bartlett, pp. xxv-xlvi. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1978.

General survey of Meredith's poetry, with some attention paid to Meredith's process of composition.

Comstock, Cathy. “‘Speak, and I see the side-lie of a truth’: The Problematics of Truth in Meredith's Modern Love.” Victorian Poetry 25, no. 2 (summer 1987): 129-41.

Contends that the imagery and shifting narrative perspectives of Modern Love underscore the poem's questions about the ground of meaning and possibility of discerning truth.

Crunden, Patricia. “‘The Woods of Westermain.’” Victorian Poetry 5, no. 1 (spring 1967): 265-82.

Argues that “The Woods of Westermain” is a better poem than critics have allowed, and describes the unity of the poem's message and imagery.

Giles, Richard F. “Meredith's Modern Love, Stanza 50.” The Explicator 40, no. 3 (spring 1982): 38-40.

Contends that the literal meaning of Modern Love's final stanza is at least as important to the poem as its metaphorical resonances.

Kozicki, Henry. “The ‘Unholy Battle’ with the Other in George Meredith's Modern Love.” Papers on Language and Literature 23, no. 2 (spring 1987): 142-60.

Interprets the husband and wife of Modern Love in terms of psychopathology, considering their behavior as typical of a “schizoid” personality.

Lund, Michael. “Space and Spiritual Crisis in Meredith's Modern Love.” Victorian Poetry 11, no. 1 (spring 1973): 376-82.

Reads the imagery of space in Modern Love as adumbrating the absence of God.

Mermin, Dorothy. “Poetry as Fiction: Meredith's Modern Love.” ELH 43, no. 1 (spring 1976): 100-19.

Focuses on the position of the narrator and the view of women in Modern Love and Meredith's earlier works.

Reader, Willie D. “The Autobiographical Author as Fictional Character: Point of View in Meredith's Modern Love.” Victorian Poetry 10, no. 2 (summer 1972): 131-43.

Contends that the shifting perspectives of Meredith's narrator in Modern Love highlight the psychological drama taking place in the poem.

Rodenbeck, John Von B. “The Classicism of Meredith's ‘Love in the Valley.’” Victorian Poetry 16, no. 4 (winter 1978): 27-37.

Identifies the classical background to Meredith's poem, especially in the meter.

Simpson, Arthur L. “Meredith's Pessimistic Humanism: A New Reading of Modern Love.” Modern Philology 67 (1969-1970): 341-56.

Reads Modern Love as an early document in Meredith's eventual transition to a more optimistic naturalism, arguing that there is distinct difference between the Meredith of Modern Love and the Meredith of the 1880s nature poems.

Tucker, Cynthia Grant. “Meredith's Broken Laurel: Modern Love and the Renaissance Sonnet Tradition.” Victorian Poetry 10, no. 4 (winter 1972): 351-65.

Connects Meredith's use of the sonnet form to the social and emotional constraints placed on modern lovers.

Williams, Ioan, ed. Meredith: The Critical Heritage. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1971, 527 p.

Contains reviews of Meredith's poetry and novels by his contemporaries, chiefly from British periodicals.

Additional coverage of Meredith's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Thomson Gale: Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, 1832-1890; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 117, 153; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vol. 80; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 18, 35, 57, 159; DISCovering Authors Modules: Poets; Literature Resource Center; Reference Guide to English Literature, Ed. 2; Twayne's English Authors; and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vols. 17, 43.