“This book, in truth, is one of the most tasteful things of its kind.”—Whitehall Review.
“Mr. Norman Gale is to be congratulated.”—Black and White.
“A delightful book in every way.”—Academy.
The Selected Poems of George Meredith.
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New Poems. By Francis Thompson. Fcap.
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“The first thing to be done, and by far the most important, is to recognise and declare that we are here face to face with a poet of the first order, a man of imagination all compact, a seer and singer of rare genius.”—Daily Chronicle.
“It confers a literary distinction upon the 60th year of the Victorian Era, and it gives the annus mirabilis yet a new title to memory.”—Newcastle Daily Chronicle.
“A true poet.... At any rate here unquestionably is a new poet, a wielder of beautiful words, a lover of beautiful things.’—I. Zangwill, in the Cosmopolitan, Sept., 1895.
“At least one book of poetry has been published this year that we can hand on confidently to other generations. It is not incautious to prophesy that Mr. Francis Thompson’s poems will last.”—Sketch.
“Mr. Thompson’s is the essential poetry of essential Christianity.”—Academy.
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