Lucile
Owen Meredith
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Description
Owen Meredith, the pen name of Robert Bulwer-Lytton, wrote Lucile as a novel in verse. It opens with Hamlet's lines about the stricken deer and the hart ungalled, and is dedicated to his father with diffidence. The poem follows Lucile, a young woman loved by two men, through France and the Alps, with long passages on nature, faith, and the choices of the heart.
The verse is fluent and romantic. Its set pieces — Alpine springs, the thirst of seraphs quenched at their sources, and the spirit that fashioned fair France — show Meredith at his most musical. Readers who like verse novels will find Lucile a full example of the form, sentimental by design and sincere in its feeling.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Owen Meredith |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 394 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |