Heres a virtual movie of the English poet and novelist George Meredith reading his sonnet "Lady, this my sonnet to your eyes" (" Modern Love XXX: What Are We First") from his 50-poem sequence of 16-line sonnets called "Modern Love". Iwhich has also been called "a novelette in sonnet form". George Meredith, OM (February 12, 1828 May 18, 1909) was an English novelist and poet during the Victorian era. George Meredith, English author and poet, is known for his romantic comedy writings. He is famous for The Egoist, considered his masterpiece. Notable for his brilliant prose, Oscar Wilde described him as 'a prose Browning.' His critical essay On Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit (1897) is a highly regarded comedy in literature. Early Life of George Meredith George Meredith was born on February 12, 1828, in Portsmouth, southern England. He was the son of a tailor and claimed to be descended from Welsh princes. His mother's family had set aside money to pay for his education. Part of his education was at a school in Germany run by the Moravian Church at Neuwied, a Protestant group. Early Works and Marital Life At the age of 17, he began his career as an apprentice to a lawyer but more interested in writing, he soon gave up law to write poems and articles in magazines. At 21, he married the widowed daughter of Thomas Love Peacock, Mary Ellen Nicholls. He first published the short work prose, The Shaving of Shagpat, when he was 27 years old. It is a fantastic tale in ...
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