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George Barlow (UK poet)

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George Barlow (1847-1914), from The Crucifixion of Man, 1893. Courtesy Internet Archive.

George Barlow (19 June 1847[1] - 1913 or 1914[2]) was an English poet, who sometimes wrote under the pseudonym James Hinton.

Life[]

Barlow was born in London, the son of George Barnes Barlow, master of the Crown Office.[3] He was educated at Harrow School and Exeter College, Oxford.[4] He moved to London in 1871, and continued to live there after his marriage a year later.[2] He was a prolific poet, his collected Poetical Works amounting 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.[5]

In addition to his published poetry oeuvre, Barlow wrote at least 2 non-fiction books, History of the Dreyfus case (1898) and The genius of Dickens. He was a regular contributor to the Contemporary Review.

Publications[]

Poems[]

  • Poems and Sonnets. (2 volumes), London: J.C.Hotten, 1871. Part I, Part II
  • A Life's love. London: J.C. Hotten, 1873; London: Remington, 1882.
  • An English Madonna (as James Hinton). London: Remington, 1874.
  • Under the Dawn. London: Chatto & Windus, 1875.
  • The Marriage before Death, and other poems. London: Remington, 1878.
  • Through Death to Life. London: Samuel Tinsley, 1878.
  • Love-songs. London: Remington, 1880.
  • Time's whisperings: sonnets and songs. London: Remington, 1880.
  • Song-bloom. London: Remington, 1881.
  • Song-spray. London: Remington, 1882.
  • A Life's Love. London: Remington, 1882.
  • An actor's reminiscences, and other poems. London: Remington, 1883.
  • Love's offering (as James Hinton). London: Remington, 1883.
  • Poems real and ideal. London: Reminton, 1884.
  • Loved beyond worlds. London: Remington, 1885.
  • The Pageant of Life: An epic poem in five books. London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1888
    • also published as The Pageant of Life: An epic of man. London: Henry J. Glaisher, 1910.
  • From Dawn to Sunset. London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1890; London: Roxburghe, 1895.
  • A Lost Mother. London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1892.
  • The Crucifixion of Man: A narrative poem. London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1893.
  • A Sextet of Singers; or, Songs of six. Westminster, UK: Roxburghe, 1896.
  • To the Women of England, and other poems. London: 1901
  • Poetical Works. (10 volumes), London: Henry J. Glaisher, 1902-1914. Volume IV
  • A coronation poem. London: Henry J. Glaisher, 1902.
  • Vox Clamantis: Sonnets and poems. London: Henry J. Glaisher, 1904.
  • A Man's Vengeance, and other poems. London: Henry J. Glaisher, 1908.
  • Songs of England awaking. London: Henry J. Glaisher, 1909.
  • Selected poems. London: Henry J. Glaisher, 1921.

Plays[]

Novels[]

  • Woman regained. A novel of artistic life, 1896
  • The daughters of Minerva. A novel of artistic life. Westminster, UK: Roxburghe, 1898.

Non-fiction[]

  • The Gospel of Humanity; or, The connection between spiritualism and modern thought. London: James Burns, 1876.
  • A History of the Dreyfus Case: From the arrest of Captain Dreyfus in October, 1894, up to the flight of Esterhazy in September, 1898. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1899.
  • The Higher Love: A plea for a nobler conception of human love (reprinted from the Contemporary Review). London: A.C. Fifield, 1905.
  • The Triumph of Woman: Prose essays. London: Andrews, 1907.
  • The genius of Dickens (reprinted from the Contemporary Review). London: Henry J. Glaister, 1909; New York: Haskell House, 1975.


Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[6]

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References[]

Notes[]

  1. ↑ Wheeler, J.M., A biographical dictionary of freethinkers, 1889
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 'Mr. George Barlow', The Times, 3 Jan. 1914, p. 11
  3. ↑ Miles, Alfred Henry, The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century, 1906, 267; Eyles, F.A.H., Popular Poets of the Period, 1889, 204.
  4. ↑ Kirk, J. F., A supplement to Allibone's critical dictionary of English literature, 2 vols, 1891
  5. ↑ John Holmes, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the late Victorian Sonnet-Sequence: Sexuality, Belief and the Self, 39, 78. Holmes, 77-83, gives extended attention to To Gertrude in the Spirit World
  6. ↑ Search results = au:George Barlow, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Apr. 24, 2014.

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