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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 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.
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.
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.
George Meredith, an iconic English poet, novelist, and essayist of the 19th century propelled the literary scene and has inspired a number of future poets.
George Meredith - Novelist, Poet, Satirist: During the next 20 years, from 1865 to 1885, Meredith continued the drudgery of reading manuscripts but substituted weekly readings to an elderly rich widow for the newspaper work.
George Meredith came to be seen as the last of the Victorian sages, something that did his reputation more harm than good in the long run. 1 Yet his stance was anything but sage-like. He was an ebullient figure, hugely inventive and brimming with humour: "chaff you he would," remembered one young family friend, "in prose, in verse, in parables ...
George Meredith was born in Portsmouth, England, on February 12, 1828. 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."
Jun 8, 2018 · George Meredith is known chiefly as a Victorian novelist and poet who innovated literature by his focus on character psychology rather than plot.
Nov 6, 2004 · "The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith" by George Meredith is a comprehensive collection of the author's literary works compiled from the Project Gutenberg repository and likely written in the late 19th century.
