George Meredith

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gptkbp:instance_of gptkb:Person
gptkb:Writer
gptkb:poet
gptkb:Novelist
gptkbp:associated_with gptkb:The_New_Age_magazine
gptkb:Realism
gptkb:Victorian_literature
gptkb:The_Pre-Raphaelite_Brotherhood
gptkb:literature
gptkb:Romanticism
gptkb:Modernism
gptkbp:awards gptkb:Order_of_Merit
gptkbp:born February 12, 1828
gptkbp:child gptkb:George_Meredith_Jr.
Arthur Meredith
Catherine Meredith
gptkbp:children gptkb:George_Meredith_Jr.
gptkb:3
gptkb:Gwendolen_Meredith
Arthur Meredith
gptkbp:contribution Poetic form innovation
Development of the modern novel
gptkbp:died May 18, 1909
gptkbp:famous_for social commentary
satirical style
complex characters
lyrical poetry
Complex narrative structures
psychological insight
Psychological insight in characters
Use of irony and wit
Innovative use of verse
Themes of love and social issues
gptkbp:famous_quote " We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
" The man who is truly great is he who is great in his own eyes."
" Life is a series of collisions with the future."
" The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought of which it is itself the thought."
" A poet is a man who is not afraid to be himself."
gptkbp:genre gptkb:Fiction
gptkb:poetry
gptkb:Romanticism
gptkb:novel
gptkb:drama
gptkb:essayist
Literary realism
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label George Meredith
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:D._H._Lawrence
gptkb:James_Joyce
gptkb:Virginia_Woolf
gptkb:H._G._Wells
gptkb:Ezra_Pound
gptkb:T._S._Eliot
gptkbp:influenced_by gptkb:Matthew_Arnold
gptkb:Lord_Alfred_Tennyson
gptkb:Charles_Dickens
gptkb:George_Eliot
gptkb:Thomas_Hardy
gptkb:Alfred_Lord_Tennyson
gptkbp:known_for lyrical style
Complex characters
Social criticism
social criticism
complex characters
psychological insight
Psychological insight
gptkbp:language English
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:British
gptkbp:notable_for gptkb:Symbolism
gptkb:Realism
Satire
Philosophical themes
Lyricism
gptkbp:notable_influence gptkb:modernism
gptkb:postmodernism
gptkb:theater
gptkb:literature
gptkb:criticism
gptkb:sociology
gptkb:feminism
gptkb:philosophy
gptkb:psychology
stream of consciousness
modernist literature
literary realism
narrative theory
gptkbp:notable_work gptkb:Jump_to_Glory_Jane
gptkb:Modern_Love
gptkb:The_Egoist
gptkb:The_Adventures_of_Harry_Richmond
Beauchamp's Career
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:essayist
gptkb:poet
gptkb:Novelist
gptkbp:place_of_birth gptkb:Portsmouth,_England
gptkbp:place_of_death gptkb:Box_Hill,_Surrey,_England
gptkb:Box_Hill,_England
gptkbp:resting_place gptkb:St._Peter's_Churchyard,_Box_Hill
gptkb:St._Peter's_Church,_Box_Hill
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Mary_Ellen_Nicolls
Mary Ellen
gptkbp:wrote gptkb:The_Egoist_(novel)
gptkb:The_Ordeal_of_Richard_Feverel
gptkb:The_Shaving_of_Shagpat
gptkb:The_Tragic_Comedians
The Amazing Marriage
The Empty Purse
The Tale of Chloe
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Victorian_literature
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4