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Our living poets. An Essay in Criticism. By H. Buxton Forman

by Harry Buxton Forman

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. pp. x, f. [1], pp. 513. Binder’s cloth. Bookplate of Maurice Buxton Forman. Contains frontispiece illustration.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">The chapter on Tennyson (pp. 29-69) contains the germ of Forman’s 1895 apologia (‘The Building of the Idylls’ in W. R. Nicoll, T. J. Wise [& H. Buxton Forman], Literary anecdotes of the nineteenth century: contributions towards a literary history of the period. London, 1895, 2 vols, see Bib# 4103557/Fr# 860 in this collection) for the Wise-Forman Tennyson forgeries.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="marg

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