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Arthur Machen: A Novelist of Ecstasy and Sin With Two Uncollected Poems by Arthur Machen

Starrett, Vincent, 1886-1974; Machen, Arthur, 1863-1947 [Contributor]· 2 chapters· 5,261 words

With singular unanimity critics for thirty years have slighted the work of Arthur Machen. A line suffices for him in Holbrook Jackson's "The Eighteen Nineties," and Mr. Blaikie-Murdoch ignores him completely in "The Renaissance of the Nineties"; yet those are the standard work...

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1. Part 1

With singular unanimity critics for thirty years have slighted the work of Arthur Machen. A line suffices for him in Holbrook Jackson's "The Eighteen Nineties," and Mr. Blaikie-...

2. Part 2

"Don't you perceive that when a certain depth has been passed you begin to ascend into the heights? The Persian poet expresses the most transcendental secrets of the Divine Love...