George Meredith was an English poet and novelist in the Victorian Era. He originally read law and was on the path to be a lawyer but chose instead to abandon that career and pursue poetry and journalism. He began a literary magazine called the Monthly Observer to cement this change.
Meredith has written about a wide variety of topics over his career as a writer, many of them personal in nature. His 1862 collection of sonnets called "Modern Love" was about his wife running off with a different man. When he remarried to a different woman, his poems began to be inspired more by nature. Meredith had difficulty achieving recognition during his career, but he has received a good deal of it posthumously. He had been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature seven times.
