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George Meredith OM (12 February 1828 – 18 May 1909) 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.
Mar 26, 2024 · George Meredith (born Feb. 12, 1828, Portsmouth, Hampshire, Eng.—died May 18, 1909, Box Hill, Surrey) was an English Victorian poet and novelist, whose novels are noted for their wit, brilliant dialogue, and aphoristic quality of language.
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 with…
George Meredith is best known for his novels, particularly The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859) and The Egoist (1879). He was also a respected poet, famous for his complex and innovative sonnet sequence Modern Love (1862), that delved into the intricacies of romantic relationships.
Oct 26, 2023 · Highly influential in his own time, George Meredith (b. 1828–d. 1909) was a larger-than-life figure. Novelist, poet, occasional essayist, journalist, and dramatist, he was also, for over three decades, a reader for the great London publishing house, Chapman and Hall.
George Meredith, (born Feb. 12, 1828, Portsmouth, Hampshire, Eng.—died May 18, 1909, Box Hill, Surrey), English novelist and poet. Though ostensibly launched on a law career at age 18, he concentrated instead on writing poems and articles and making translations.
Jun 8, 2018 · Overview. George Meredith is known chiefly as a Victorian novelist and poet who innovated literature by his focus on character psychology rather than plot.
