Richard Barnham Middleton's The Ghost Ship is one of the best-loved
ghost stories in English literature, about which Arthur Machen
wrote, I declare I would not exchange this short, crazy, enchanting
fantasy for a whole wilderness of seemly novels. Middleton himself
(1882-1911) was a tragic figure, a young man impatient for success,
who managed to live the archetypal life of the Romantic Bohemian
poet, complete with poverty, unrequited love for an impossible
woman (a prostitute), despair, and an early suicide. While he
published many pieces in the best magazines of the day, no volumes
of his work were published in his lifetime. As soon as he was dead,
he was discovered. Four volumes of his collected works were in
print within eighteen months. Three more followed in the next two
decades. His poetry was acclaimed in the press as a new Keats, both
for the brilliance of his work and the brevity of his life. such as
The Coffin Merchant, On the Brighton Road, and The Conjurer, which
only hint at the richness of the larger body of his work, and
suggest what kind of a literary artist he would have become if he
had lived.
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