George Barlow

George Barlow (19 June 1847, London [Wheeler, J. M., "A biographical dictionary of freethinkers", 1889] – 1913 or 1914'Mr. George Barlow', "The Times", 3 Jan. 1914, p. 11] ) was an English poet, who sometimes wrote under the pseudonym James Hinton.

Barlow was the son of George Barnes Barlow, Master of the Crown Office, [Miles, Alfred Henry, "The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century", 1906, p. 267; Eyles, F. A. H., Popular Poets of the Period, 1889, p. 204] and was educated at Harrow School and Exeter College, Oxford. [Kirk, J. F., "A supplement to Allibone's critical dictionary of English literature", 2 vols, 1891] He moved to London in 1871, and continued to live there after his marriage a year later. A prolific poet, his collected "Poetical Works" amounted to over 3,000 pages of verse. Barlow was dubbed the 'Bard of the sixteen sonnets a day' by his acquaintance Charles Marston, and 'the Poet of spiritualism' by Edward Bennett; his sonnet sequences explored spiritualism and erotic love. [John Holmes, "Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the late Victorian Sonnet-Sequence: Sexuality, Belief and the Self", p. 39, 78. Holmes, pp. 77-83, gives extended attention to "To Gertrude in the Spirit World"] As well as his poetry, Barlow wrote a "History of the Dreyfus case" (1898) and "The genius of Dickens". He wrote for the" Contemporary Review".

Works

*"A life's love", [1873] . New edition, 1882
*(as James Hinton), "An English madonna", 1874
*"Under the dawn", 1875
*"The gospel of humanity: or the connection between spiritualism and modern thought", 1876
*"The marriage before death, and other poems", 1878
*"The two marriages, a drama in three acts", 1878
*"Through death to life", 1878
*"To Gertrude in the Spirit World", 1878
*"Love-songs", 1880
*"Time's whisperings: sonnets and songs", 1880
*"Song-bloom", 1881
*"Song-spray", 1882
*"An actor's reminiscences, and other poems", 1883
*(as James Hinton), "Love's offering", 1883
*"Poems real and ideal", 1884
*"Loved beyond worlds", 1885
*"The pageant of life: an epic poem in five books", 1888. New edition, 1910
*"From dawn to sunset", 1890
*"A lost mother", 1892
*"The crucifixion of man: a narrative poem", 1893. Second edition, 1895
*"Jesus of Nazareth, a tragedy", [1896]
*"Woman regained. A novel of artistic life", 1896
*"The daughters of Minerva. A novel of artistic life", [1898]
*"A history of the Dreyfus case : from the arrest of Captain Dreyfus in October, 1894, up to the flight of Esterhazy in September, 1898", 1899
*"To the women of England, and other poems", 1901
*"The Poetical Works of George Barlow", London: Henry Glaisher, 11 vols, 1902-14
*"A coronation poem", 1902
*"Vox clamantis: sonnets and poems", 1904
*"The higher love. A plea for a noble conception of human love", 1905. Reprinted from the "Contemporary Review".
*"The triumph of woman, prose essays", 1907
*"A man's vengeance, and other poems", 1908
*"The genius of Dickens", 1909. Reprinted from the "Contemporary Review".
*"Songs of England awaking", 1909. Second edition, 1910
*"Selected poems", 1921. With note by C. W., bibliography and short life.

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