Not yet acknowledged as a poet, George Eliot started her first attempt at the trade in 1864 with The Spanish Gypsy. A lengthy poem featuring historic details, elaborate characters and beautiful rhyme, the piece was quite an endeavor. In 1866, two years into the poem's composition, Eliot's then-partner George Henry Lewes hid the manuscript and forbid her to continue work on the text, as he was afraid it was causing her to fall ill. Completed and published in 1868, the work received mixed reviews from both readers and critics. Disappointed, George wrote a series of shorter poems like Agatha and The Legend of Jubal in the years following The Spanish Gypsy's publication. Her success with poetry would never match that of her novels, although poems were some of her last published works before her death.
"Not yet acknowledged as a poet, George Eliot started her first attempt at the trade in 1864 with The Spanish Gypsy. A lengthy poem featuring historic details, elaborate characters and beautiful rhyme, the piece was quite an endeavor. In 1866, two years into the poem's composition, Eliot's then-partner George Henry Lewes hid the manuscript and forbid her to continue work on the text, as he was afraid it was causing her to fall ill. Completed and published in 1868, the work received mixed reviews from both readers and critics. Disappointed, George wrote a series of shorter poems like Agatha and The Legend of Jubal in the years following The Spanish Gypsy's publication. Her success with poetry would never match that of her novels, although poems were some of her last published works before her death."@en
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