Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside, with Poems and Ballads
George Meredith, Criscillia Benford, and Rebecca Mitchell
Abstract
Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside occupies a distinctive and somewhat notorious place within George Meredith's already unique body of work. It is now best known for the emotionally intense sonnet cycle, which Meredith's own contemporaries dismissed as scandalously confessional and indiscreet. While individual sonnets from the work have been anthologized, the complete cycle is rarely included, and the original edition has not been reprinted since its first appearance in 1862. This edition restores the original publication and supplements it with a range of accompanying materials tha ... More
Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside occupies a distinctive and somewhat notorious place within George Meredith's already unique body of work. It is now best known for the emotionally intense sonnet cycle, which Meredith's own contemporaries dismissed as scandalously confessional and indiscreet. While individual sonnets from the work have been anthologized, the complete cycle is rarely included, and the original edition has not been reprinted since its first appearance in 1862. This edition restores the original publication and supplements it with a range of accompanying materials that will reintroduce Meredith's astonishing collection of poetry to a new generation of readers.
Keywords:
George Meredith,
Modern Love,
sonnet cycle,
sonnets,
collection of poetry,
emotionally intense
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2013 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780300173178 |
| Published to Yale Scholarship Online: October 2013 |
DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300173178.001.0001 |
