(The finest new poem here is The Blind Boy which gives sco...)
The finest new poem here is The Blind Boy which gives scope to all the poet s sympathies by summoning the beloved beauties of visible nature round the ideal of a mysterious exclusion and isolation Speaking of the aim alone we may say that perhaps there is hardly in Wordsworth himself any single poem of equal length which from so central a stand point interpenetrates the seen with the unseen bounded always in a familiar circle of ideas Fortnightly Review 1880 The poem of the book is no doubt that entitled The Blind Boy We have in this case a poem which by combining deep and sympathetic truth of idea with faithful and minute exposition especially deserves to live The tale is equally simple and affecting An ardent love of nature human and external and a conscientious desire to present the traits of both run through this pathetic idyll The volume is fresh and charming Its inspiration shows genuine sympathy with man and external life while its execution shows a keen love of beauty with a strict adherence to fact Moreover the sympathy displayed in the book is healthy and pure It overflows with tenderness for childhood for womanhood and for poverty Dr Hake often discloses to us the secrets of nature and of human feeling with startling truth of representation The designs of Mr Arthur Hughes by their imaginative conception and characteristic reality of detail happily accord with the spirit of the poems Athenum 1880 Deep serious study of the various problems of life The Globe 1880 Old Souls is as original a poem as it is possible to conceive In some of the verses there is a wondrous power and the whole Parable is of the purest noblest order In The Lily of the Valley and The Deadly Nightshade extremes meet Both poems are delightful The poems as a whole we must commend as the productions of an undoubted poet some of them are beyond all criticism Once read they will be pondered and we think un
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Thomas Gordon Hake was an English poet, physician.
Background
Hake was born on March 10, 1809 in Leeds, England. His father, whose usual residence was Sidmouth, possessed considerable musical acquirements. His mother, fourteen years older than the father, was of the Huntly branch of the Gordon family, being eldest daughter of Captain William Augustus Gordon, and aunt of General Charles Gordon. The father died when Hake was three years old ; his widow, left with a moderate competence, continued to live in Devonshire, and obtained for her son an admission to Christ's Hospital, where, first at the preparatory school at Hertford and afterwards in London, he received most of his education.
Education
Hake studied medicine at St George's hospital and at Edinburgh and Glasgow, but had given up practice for many years before his death, and had devoted himself to a literary life.
Career
In 1839 Hake published a prose epic Vates, republished in Ainsworth's magazine as Valdarno, which attracted the attention of D. G. Rossetti. In after years he became an intimate member of the circle of friends and followers gathered round Rossetti, who so far departed from his usual custom as to review Hake's poems in the Academy and in the Fortnightly Review. After 1872, Hake spent a considerable time in Italy and Germany, and, returning to England, settled near St. John's Wood, principally occupied in the composition and publication of poetry for the few, difficult rather than obscure in thought and diction, but uninviting to those who cannot appreciate mystical symbolism. In 1871 he published ‘Madeline and other Poems, ’ reproducing much of ‘The World's Epitaph. ' In 1872 appeared ‘Parables and Tales, ‘ comprising ‘Old Souls. ' In 1876 he published ‘New Symbols; ' in 1879 ‘legends of the Morrow; ’ in 1680 ‘Maiden Ecstasy; ’ in 1863 ‘The Serpent Play, ’ and in 1890 ‘The New Day, ’ a collection of sonnets in the Shakespearean form. In 1871 he published Madeline; 1872, Parables and Tales; 1883, The Serpent Play; 1890, New Day Sonnets; and in 1892 his Memoirs of Eighty Years. Dr Hake's works had much subtlety and felicity of expression, and were warmly appreciated in a somewhat restricted literary circle. In his last published verse, the sonnets, he shows an advance in facility on the occasional harshness of his earlier work. He was given a Civil List literary pension in 1893, and died on the 11th of January 1895.
In the 1830s, Hake married Lucy Bush. They had several sons, including Alfred Egmont Hake, an author and philosopher who wrote a biography of General Charles Gordon.
