George Meredith

George Meredith (1828 – 1909) was a notable Victorian novelist and poet. He started writing poetry in his 20s and was greatly influenced by Keats and Tennyson. His most significant work is Modern Love – a sequence of fifty 16-line ‘sonnets’ about the failure of a marriage, published in 1862. Like Thomas Hardy, he considered poetry to be his chief vocation but tends to be remembered more for his novels.