George Barlow (19 June 1847 – 26 December 1913) was an English poet, who sometimes wrote under the pseudonym James Hinton.'Mr. George Barlow', The Times, 3 Jan. 1914, p. 11
Barlow was born in London,Wheeler, J. M., A biographical dictionary of freethinkers, 1889 the posthumous son of George Barne Barlow, assistant 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 who died a month before his birth. He 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
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 A life's love, . 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 words, 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, Woman regained. A novel of artistic life, 1896 The daughters of Minerva. A novel of artistic life, 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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