george meredith sonnets
A history and how-to guide to the famous form. There was Maugham’s usual sly humour about it as well as pathos and an unexpected character reveal. In the excerpt of George Meredith’s Modern Love, the author explores the realities of “modern love” and the pain it causes.
I hadn’t even heard of Meredith until now. The Egoist is the novel we’d recommend (as his most famous)…Let me quote Oscar Wildes’ opinion on Meredith,”As a writer he mastered everything except language;as a novelist he can do anything except tell a story” (Jan.1888) quoted in The Decay of Lying. I think Thos. Dirge in Woods. The sonnet is traditionally 14 lines, but Meredith chose to innovate for his 1862 sonnet sequence Modern Love by adding an extra two lines. By George Meredith.
Thanks for another great post!Thanks as ever, Marie – I know, oh to be able to read that first, lost novel of Hardy’s! And I’d like to read Diana of the Crossways.Good plan – I think I’ll listen to Vaughan Williams’s piece while rereading Meredith’s poem.
I love Meredith’s poems, especially the Modern Love sonnet sequence. His 1862 sonnet sequence, Modern Love, best described as a … He did something subtly different in that sequence, and many of the poems are really powerful and still carry a punch. And a Meredith revival would be wonderful! They are, next to much of the rhetoric and excessive emotion of Tennyson, decidedly modern…So, which one should I read? More Poems by George Meredith.
Will have to give it a go. “My bad,” as the kids around here say. Hardy was a more likely target …Now I didn’t know that.
I hadn’t twigged – and there’s that song as well, isn’t there.
There’s a good, rather unhappy one about playing a game called ‘hiding the skeleton’ too.Oh yes!
Being that this poem is about the love of his wife, it also takes
Doubtless he did rework some of its themes in later novels, especially Tess, so I think you’re right there – I know Tess revisited (and treated more directly and bluntly) some of the subject matter explored in his earlier novels.
Good link. I think I’ll have to re-read the Egoist and go on a Meredith hunt.Fantastic – thanks for the comment, Sarah. I never knew the bit about Meredith and Hardy. When a clemency petition was to be drawn up on Wilde’s release Meredith flatly refused to put his signature.Oops. I’d definitely recommend Modern Love as a starting point, but ‘The Lark Ascending’ is also delightful. (True confessions.)
I have to confess I had never even heard of him.Thanks, Guy – I appreciate that. Juggling Jerry. It was brilliant commentary and great fun. G eorge Meredith, 1828-1909, is often compared to Thomas Hardy as a successful novelist whose preferred genre was poetry.
Meredith was on my Ph.D. reading list, but I never quite got around to reading him.
(not poetry please, I can’t read poetry in English)Hi Emma.
Love in the Valley. You’ve inspired me to go away and read The Egoist (a work I’ve encountered a great deal without ever getting round to reading).
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