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Modern Love, and Poems of the English Roadside, with Poems and Ballads

poem by Meredith

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  • George Meredith, detail of an oil painting by G.F. Watts, 1893; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
    In George Meredith: Beginnings as poet and novelist.

    …published a volume of poems, Modern Love, and Poems of the English Roadside, with Poems and Ballads, in 1862. If Evan Harrington had exorcised the tailor demon that haunted him, “Modern Love” doubtless served a similar purpose for his own disastrous marriage. Semi-autobiographical, it is concerned with the tragedy of…

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