George Barlow (poet)

George Barlow (19 June 1847, London[1] – 1913 or 1914[2]) 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,[3] and 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] 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.[5]

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

Works

References

  1. Wheeler, J. M., A biographical dictionary of freethinkers, 1889
  2. 1 2 'Mr. George Barlow', The Times, 3 Jan. 1914, p. 11
  3. 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
  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, p. 39, 78. Holmes, pp. 77-83, gives extended attention to To Gertrude in the Spirit World

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