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Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth

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By George Meredith
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A varied collection of lyrics and sonnets that celebrates the sensory life of earth while probing larger moral and philosophical questions. Poems evoke woodlands, meadows, and pastoral music, employ classical and mythic allusion, and meditate on love, change, and the tension between wild impulse and cultivated wisdom. Ballads and shorter lyrics supply narrative motion and vivid imagery; sonnets compress reflective argument about time, art, and the self. The overall tone moves between exuberant celebration and guarded instruction, using musical diction and dense metaphor to connect natural perception with human feeling and ethical awareness.

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Title: Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth

Author: George Meredith

Release date: November 7, 2020 [eBook #63672]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

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WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

  • THE SHAVING OF SHAGPAT: An Arabian Entertainment.
  • THE ORDEAL OF RICHARD FEVEREL.
  • EVAN HARRINGTON.
  • EMILIA IN ENGLAND.
  • VITTORIA.
  • BEAUCHAMP’S CAREER.
  • THE EGOIST.
  • &c. &c.
  • Forthcoming Publications in Verse.
  • POEMS.
  • THE SENTIMENTALISTS: A Comedy.

POEMS AND LYRICS
OF
THE JOY OF EARTH

POEMS AND LYRICS
OF
THE JOY OF EARTH

BY
GEORGE MEREDITH

London
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1883

Printed by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh.

INSCRIBED TO
JAMES COTTER MORISON

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Antistans mihi milibus trecentis.