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Namespaces Page Discussion. Views Read View source View history. Navigation Main page Community portal Recent changes Help. This page was last edited on 6 May , at Massey's poetry has a certain rough and vigorous element of sincerity and strength which easily accounts for its popularity at the time of its production. He treated the theme of Sir Richard Grenville before Tennyson thought of using it, with much force and vitality.
Indeed, Tennyson's own praise of Massey's work is still its best eulogy, for the Laureate found in him a poet of fine lyrical impulse, and of a rich half-Oriental imagination. The inspiration of his poetry is essentially British; he was a patriot to the core. His work, which draws comparisons between the Judeo-Christian religion and the Egyptian religion, is not considered significant in the field of modern Egyptology and is not mentioned in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt or any other work of modern Egyptology.
There lives a voice within me, a guest-angel of my heart, And its sweet lispings win me, till the tears a-trembling start; Up evermore it springeth, like some magic melody, AT the Last Day while all the rest Are soundly sleeping underground, He will be up clean-shaved and dressed An hour before the Trumpets sound.
Anru The name Mr. Massey has given to the house in which he has resided for the past four years was suggested by the special line of study he is pursuing, Anru , or more correctly Aanru , being the Egyptian Garden of Eden or Paradise. The previous thirteen years were spent at Bordighera Villa, New Southgate. Here he had much trouble and sickness, losing by death two daughters. The old name of New Southgate is Colney Hatch, and, when he went to reside there, paragraphs appeared in the American papers regretting that Mr.
Massey was in a lunatic asylum; the New York Times was not at all surprised, having prophesied in a leader where his opinions would land him! From to he had lived at Ward's Hurst, near Ashridge, Hertfordshire. The late Lord Brownlow and his mother, Lady Marian Alford, were great friends of the poet, and gave him this place for life. Massey since Local associations may be traced in Mr.
Massey's poems, but external nature is to him chiefly background, his interest being almost entirely in the human. Many who are familiar with the poetry of Gerald Massey know little of his history or personality.
Few lives have been more remarkable than his. His father was a canal boatman. He traces whatever he has out of the ordinary to his mother—"a fiery-spirited, great-hearted little woman"—prototype of "Christie's Poor Old Gran," "Christie" Christabel being his eldest daughter. His schooling was of the scantiest. He attended a British school and also a night school in Tring, but says he did not get much from either. At the age of seven he went into a silk factory, where he worked from six in the morning until half-past six in the evening for ninepence per week.
He says, with a laugh at the recollection, that as a boy he was an inveterate gambler, and on the Saturday lost all his first week's wages at pitch-and-toss. When he had been some time at the factory it was burnt down, much to his delight. He was then put to straw-plaiting, and after three years at that he got a situation at a boarding-school, but he had to leave—"because," he penitently explains, "the girls used to kiss and hug me.
His first lines appeared in print in the Aylesbury News in Soon afterwards he issued a shilling pamphlet of poems.
That is the wonder of Burns—from the first he seems to have been as unconscious as a bird. Meantime, he commenced to write what he now describes as "wild, red republican rhymes.
In '49 he started a monthly paper, The Uxbridge Spirit of Freedom , eleven issues of which were published. In '50 he published "Voices of Freedom and Lyrics of Love.
At twenty-two he married a well-known spiritualist medium, "The Clairvoyant Jane," and some of his tenderest poems were written at this period.
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