THE POETICAL WORKS OF OWEN MEREDITH (ROBERT, LORD LYTTON)

BOSTON: HOUGHTON, OSGOOD AND COMPANY; THE RIVERSIDE PRESS, 1880 VERY NICE LOOKING RICH BROWN COVER, GOLD PRINT AND DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE. LIGHT WEAR EDGES OF SPINE, TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT, HEAVY PAGES, INDEX IN BACK. MOST POPULAR POEMS ARE LUCILLE, THE APPLE, OF LIFE, THE WANDERER, CLYTEMNESTRA AND MANY OTHER POEMS. ARTWORK PICTURE LORD LYTTON FRONTISPIECE. Edward Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, GCB, GCSI, GCIE, PC (8 November 1831 24 November 1891) was an English statesman, Conservative politician, and poet (who used the pseudonym Owen Meredith). He served as Viceroy of India between 1876 and 1880during his tenure Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of Indiaand as British Ambassador to France from 1887 to 1891. When Lytton was twenty-five years old, he published in London a volume of poems under the name of Owen Meredith.[1] He went on to publish several other volumes under the same name. The most popular is Lucile, a story in verse published in 1860. His poetry was extremely popular and critically commended in his own day. He was a great experimenter with form. His best work is beautiful, and much of it is of a melancholy nature, as this short extract from a poem called "A Soul's Loss" shows, where the poet bids farewell to a lover who has betrayed him: ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.