Hardy was a more likely target …Now I didn’t know that. A poet, essayist, and novelist, his collection of fifty sixteen-line poems about the failure of a marriage, Modern Love (1862), is sometimes referred to as a "Meredithian sonnet cycle. Perhaps it will be the beginnings of a George Meredith revival. The idea that his very first novel was of a controversial subject matter and so was unpublishable makes me smile. (Sorry, I should have resisted…)Alouette, gentil alouette. He did something subtly different in that sequence, and many of the poems are really powerful and still carry a punch. Read More.
That is exciting… And I agree, and I think I’ll have to do a piece on the cross-fertilisation between literature and music at some point.Yes, do give him a read – especially Modern Love, his sonnet sequence. As I was reading it the other day, in preparation for writing this post, I found myself ‘hearing’ Vaughan Williams’s music as I read…A fascinating post.
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel was also, once upon a time, very popular…He stopped Hardy from publishing his first novel?! I think Thos. I’d definitely recommend Modern Love as a starting point, but ‘The Lark Ascending’ is also delightful.
I think I’ll have to re-read the Egoist and go on a Meredith hunt.Fantastic – thanks for the comment, Sarah.
Love in the Valley. I’ve never finished The Egoist but I really should crack on with it.Thanks, and you’re ahead of me – I’ve not even started The Egoist! I have to confess I had never even heard of him.Thanks, Guy – I appreciate that. 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). The most challenging and innovative sonnets are those written by George Meredith and Gerard Manley Hopkins, both of whom radically transform its scope and structure. I’d love to know what you think, IL.Thanks! Were moveless, looking through their dead black years, The sonnet is traditionally 14 lines, but Meredith chose to innovate for his 1862 sonnet sequence Modern Love by adding an extra two lines. Although he was popular in his own lifetime, his achievements have been overlooked: as a poet he is overshadowed by Tennyson and Browning, and as a novelist he has been half-forgotten, while George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, and many of his other contemporaries are still widely read. A history and how-to guide to the famous form. By George Meredith… The Egoist is probably the best place to start with his fiction (though I’m relying on others here as shamefully I haven’t read it). I hadn’t twigged – and there’s that song as well, isn’t there. I never knew the bit about Meredith and Hardy. I will rectify that soon!Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.Interesting Literature is a participant in the Amazon EU Associates Programme, an affiliate advertising programme designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by linking to Amazon.co.uk. Alouette, je te plumerai!Some have even said George Meredith was the model for the ‘famous writer’ in Somerset Maugham’s book “Cakes and Ale’ … who’s to say? It was brilliant commentary and great fun. He deserves it. In the many sonnets presented in Modern Love, George Meredith explains how his marriage went from happy to chaos when he found out his wife was not faithful to him. (not poetry please, I can’t read poetry in English)Hi Emma.
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