Modern Love

Author(s): George Meredith

Genre(s): Sonnets

Narrators: Laurie Banza, Cavaet, Greg Giordano, Ariphron, Larry Wilson, Alan Mapstone

Number of Chapters: 10

Length: 57 minutes

Language: English

This is a 50-poem sequence of 16-line sonnets, divided into 10 sections. It has been called "a novelette in sonnet form". The author, George Meredith, pours his heart out in raw anguish, pain, and heartbreak, as he recalls the moments, and sometimes intimate memories of his wife who deserted him for another lover. (Summary by Laur)