The title poem, a daring and innovative work for its day, adapts the sonnet sequence tradition (though in poems of sixteen lines) to the emotional realities of a failed contemporary marriage, tracing the course of estrangement as love gives way to discord, jealousy, unhappiness, and suicide. It draws on the blunder of Meredith's own first marriage, to the widowed daughter of Thomas Love Peacock, who fell in love with painter Henry Wallis and went off with him to Capri, returning afterwards to Weybridge where she died in 1861.
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Hardback Editions
January 1948 : Hardback
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Paperback Editions
December 2005 : Paperback
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January 1996 : Paperback
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April 1995 : Paperback
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August 1988 : Paperback
| Title: Modern Love Author(s): George Meredith ISBN: 1-870851-01-3 / 9781870851015 (UK edition) Publisher: Daisy Bks. Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
Other Editions
1991 : Unknown
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1948 : Unknown
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1934 : Unknown
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