Modern Love (poetry collection)

Modern Love
Thomas Bird Mosher's American bibliographical edition of 1891
AuthorGeorge Meredith
LanguageEnglish
GenreSonnet sequence
PublisherChapman & Hall
Publication date
1862
Publication placeEngland
Media typePrint
TextModern Love at Wikisource

Modern Love by George Meredith is a sequence of fifty 16-line sonnets about the failure of a marriage, an episodic verse narrative that has been described as "a novella in verse". Earlier working titles for the sequence were "The Love-Match" and then "The Tragedy of Modern Love". It first appeared in 1862 as part of the volume Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside, published by Chapman & Hall, and then thirty years later, with slight modifications, from Macmillan.