Sentimentality surrounding the failure of his first marriage affected early works like Farina: A Legend of Cologne.  
His criticism includes an essay in which he argued sentimentality in literature requires a correction, "On the Idea of Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit."  Sentimentality surrounding the failure of his first marriage affected early works like Farina: A Legend of Cologne.  Novels of his later years include The Reading of Earth and his unfinished Celt and Saxon.  Other works include Diana of the Crossways, Evan Harrington, and the sonnet sequence Modern Love, but he is best known for a novel about the fall of Sir Willoughby Patterne.  FTP, name this author of The Egoist.
His criticism includes an essay in which he argued sentimentality in literature requires a correction, "On the Idea of Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit."  
George Meredith