“Above all, Poverty is a cold place to write Poetry in. It is not…” — Gerald Massey

“Above all, Poverty is a cold place to write Poetry in. It is not attractive to poetical influences. The Muses do not like entertainment which is not fit for man or beast.”

Rejecting the romantic notion that hardship necessarily nourishes art · Preface to the third edition of Babe Christabel (1854)

Gerald Massey

About Gerald Massey

29 May 1828–29 October 1907

Gerald Massey, born on 29 May 1828 in Tring, Hertfordshire, and dead on 29 October 1907 in South Norwood, London, lived one of the most striking self-made literary lives of the Victorian age. He was a poet, lecturer, editor, radical reformer, Shakespearean commentator, spiritual seeker, and amateur investigator of…

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