George Barlow 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, and was educated at Harrow School

Harrow School

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 and Exeter College, Oxford

Exeter College, Oxford

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. 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

Charles Marston

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, and 'the Poet of spiritualism

Spiritualism

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' by Edward Bennett; his sonnet sequence

Sonnet sequence

A sonnet sequence is a group of sonnets thematically unified to create a long work, although generally, unlike the stanza, each sonnet so connected can also be read as a meaningful separate unit....

s explored spiritualism and erotic love.

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

Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature's most iconic...

. He was a regular contributor to the Contemporary Review

Contemporary Review

-Foundation:It was founded in 1866 by Alexander Strahan and a group of intellectuals anxious to promote intelligent and independent opinion about the great issues of their day. They intended it to be the church-minded counterpart of the resolutely secular Fortnightly Review, which was founded by...

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Works

• A life's love, [1873]. 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 worlds, 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, [1896]
• Woman regained. A novel of artistic life, 1896
• The daughters of Minerva. A novel of artistic life, [1898]
• 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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