George Meredith's early verse: a new manuscript in his first wife's hand.(Critical essay)

Victorian Poetry | September 22, 2007| | Copyright

Although his first collection of Poems (1851) received a fair measure of raise from reviewers and a handsome compliment from Tennyson, George Meredith soon came to regard the book as an embarrassment and later wished he could suppress it entirely. He is said to have destroyed the unbound sheets for some three hundred copies of the Poems, (1) and he told John Lane that he destroyed the manuscript of an intended volume of "British Songs" after John W. Parker and Son declined to publish it at their expense in July 1855. (2) He must also have destroyed numerous loose manuscripts ...

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