Dale Nelson begins an in-depth exploration of Coventry Patomore’s Religio Poetae and its influence upon Arthur Machen: “Numerous Machen readers seek traces of the Golden Dawn, which Machen outgrew and repeatedly disparaged, but evidently don’t read Patmore, whose works received Machen’s mature, forthright approval, expressed publicly and privately.”
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An Irish Leader of Yesterday: “Home Rule, depend upon it, is not far off. It will be granted with the consent of the Conservative party, with the general good will of England.” … I pointed out that Mr. Gladstone had gone to the country demanding a majority against the combined forces of Ireland and Conservatism. He failed to obtain it, and became a Home Ruler.
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