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Selected Poems
Short works by the 19th century English lyric poet.
- GenresPoetry
91 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1977
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About the author
George Meredith
1,523 books97 followersGeorge Meredith of Britain wrote novels, such as
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
(1859), and poetic works, including
Modern Love
(1862).
During the Victorian era, Meredith read law, and people articled him as a solicitor, but shortly after marrying Mary Ellen Nicolls, a 30-year-old widowed daughter of Thomas Love Peacock, in 1849 at 21 years of age, he abandoned that profession for journalism.
He collected his early writings, first published in periodicals, into Poems, which was published to some acclaim in 1851. His wife left him and their five-year old son in 1858; she died three years later. Her departure was the inspiration for The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859), his first "major novel." It was considered a breakthrough novel, but its sexual frankness caused a scandal and prevented it from being widely read.
As an advisor to publishers, Meredith is credited with helping Thomas Hardy start his literary career, and was an early associate of J. M. Barrie. Before his death, Meredith was honored from many quarters: he succeeded Lord Tennyson as president of the Society of Authors; in 1905 he was appointed to the Order of Merit by King Edward VII.
His works include: The Shaving of Shagpat (1856), Farina (1857), Vittoria (1867) and The Egoist (1879). The Egoist is one of his most enduring works.
Librarian note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
George^Meredith
During the Victorian era, Meredith read law, and people articled him as a solicitor, but shortly after marrying Mary Ellen Nicolls, a 30-year-old widowed daughter of Thomas Love Peacock, in 1849 at 21 years of age, he abandoned that profession for journalism.
He collected his early writings, first published in periodicals, into Poems, which was published to some acclaim in 1851. His wife left him and their five-year old son in 1858; she died three years later. Her departure was the inspiration for The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859), his first "major novel." It was considered a breakthrough novel, but its sexual frankness caused a scandal and prevented it from being widely read.
As an advisor to publishers, Meredith is credited with helping Thomas Hardy start his literary career, and was an early associate of J. M. Barrie. Before his death, Meredith was honored from many quarters: he succeeded Lord Tennyson as president of the Society of Authors; in 1905 he was appointed to the Order of Merit by King Edward VII.
His works include: The Shaving of Shagpat (1856), Farina (1857), Vittoria (1867) and The Egoist (1879). The Egoist is one of his most enduring works.
Librarian note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
George^Meredith
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October 9, 2017
Swift over Pope ALL DAY.
Swift's relaxed prosody > Pope' cramped precision.
Swift's studied landscapes w/the occasional hyperbole > Pope's delirious London.
Swift's employment of idiomatic phrases in good humor "My Master is a parsonable Man, and not a spindle-shank'd hoddy doddy" ("Mary the Cook-Maid's Letter to Dr. Sheridan") > Pope's perpetual abjection of bad writers/images of debased language. Of course, Swift, like anyone in this period could trash hack writers but it isn't with quite as poisonous an edge.
I don't get to do this in my dissertation. I'm doing it here.
Swift's relaxed prosody > Pope' cramped precision.
Swift's studied landscapes w/the occasional hyperbole > Pope's delirious London.
Swift's employment of idiomatic phrases in good humor "My Master is a parsonable Man, and not a spindle-shank'd hoddy doddy" ("Mary the Cook-Maid's Letter to Dr. Sheridan") > Pope's perpetual abjection of bad writers/images of debased language. Of course, Swift, like anyone in this period could trash hack writers but it isn't with quite as poisonous an edge.
I don't get to do this in my dissertation. I'm doing it here.
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