Author : George Meredith
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770487646
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)
Book Synopsis Modern Love by : George Meredith
Download or read book Modern Love written by George Meredith and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Victorian writer George Meredith completed Modern Love, his most famous poem, in the months following his wife’s death in 1861. The series of 16-line sonnets (a stanzaic form Meredith invented) depicts isolated scenes in an unhappy marriage as both partners take lovers. At the time, Meredith’s long poem was savaged by critics both for its style and for its “diseased” content. In this century, however, it has been lauded as a complex and extraordinarily powerful exploration of the realities of Victorian marriage.