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Poems by George Meredith. 1828–1909, English novelist and poet. One of the great English novelists, Meredith wrote complex, often comic yet highly cerebral works that contain striking psychological character studies.
My own acquaintance with George Meredith’s work began, in a fragmentary way, somewhere about 1868 or 1869, when his Adventures of Harry Richmond was moving through the pages of the Corhill Magazine.
George Meredith was a major Victorian novelist whose career developed in conjunction with an era of great change in English literature during the second half of the 19th century. While his early novels largely conformed to Victorian literary conventions, his later novels demonstrated a concern...
Rebecca N. Mitchell. 2011, Literature Compass 8.3 (March 2011): 142-150. This article offers an overview of criticism of George Meredith’s poetry in the last century and a half and situates Meredith’s work within current and emergent trends in Victorian studies. The first section addresses the original critical response to Meredith’s ...
George Meredith. The World’s Work, 1909 [Public Domain] This extract comes from George Meredith’s Modern Love, a sequence of fifty sonnets published in 1862. Meredith was primarily a Victorian novelist, but he also wrote poetry, and Modern Love is widely accepted as his most important poetic achievement. The poet’s aim in this work is to ...
George Meredith (n. 12 februarie 1828, Portsmouth, Regatul Unit al Marii Britanii și Irlandei – d. 18 mai 1909, Dorking, Anglia, Regatul Unit al Marii Britanii și Irlandei) a fost un scriitor englez . A scris o operă realistă de subtilă analiză psihologică, mânuită de pe poziția autorului omniscient, prilejuind intervenții ironice ...
George Meredith was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. At first, his focus was poetry, influenced by John Keats among others, but Meredith gradually established a reputation as a novelist. The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859) briefly scandalised Victorian literary circles. Of his later novels, the most enduring is The Egoist (1879), though in his lifetime his greatest success ...
