George Meredith  

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George Meredith, OM (February 12, 1828 – May 18, 1909) was an English novelist and poet.

Works

Essays

• Essay on Comedy (1877)

Novels

• The Shaving of Shagpat (1856)
• Farina (1857)
• The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859)
• Evan Harrington (1861)
• Emilia in England (1864), republished as Sandra Belloni in 1887
• Rhoda Fleming (1865)
• Vittoria (1867)
• The Adventures of Harry Richmond (1871)
• Beauchamp's Career (1875)
• The House on the Beach (1877)
• The Case of General Ople and Lady Camper (1877)
• The Tale of Chloe (1879)
• The Egoist (1879)
• The Tragic Comedians (1880)
• Diana of the Crossways (1885)
• One of our Conquerors (1891)
• Lord Ormont and his Aminta (1894)
• The Amazing Marriage (1895)
• Celt and Saxon (1910)

Poetry

• Poems (1851)
• Modern Love (1862)
• Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth (1883)
• The Woods of Westermain (1883)
• A Faith on Trial (1885)
• Ballads and Poems of Tragic Life (1887)
• A Reading of Earth (1888)
• The Empty Purse (1892)
• Odes in Contribution to the Song of French History(1898)
• A Reading of Life (1901)
• Last Poems (1909)
• Lucifer in Starlight
• The Lark Ascending (the inspiration for Vaughn Williams' instrumental work The Lark Ascending).