Arthur Machen A Novelist of Ecstasy and Sin With Two Uncollected Poems by Arthur Machen

Excerpt: "e;With singular unanimity critics for thirty years have slighted the work of Arthur Machen. A line suffices for him in Holbrook Jackson's "e;The Eighteen Nineties,"e; and Mr. Blaikie-Murdoch ignores him completely in "e;The Renaissance of the Nineties"e;; yet those are the standard works on the period to which, chronologically, at least, Machen belongs. Mr. Turquet-Milnes, with greater appreciation, gives him a half-chapter in his scholarly work, "e;The Influence of Baudelaire,"e; but even that is made up largely of quotations from "e;The Hill of Dreams,"e; to prove Machen a descendent of Baudelaire-an error to which I subscribed until Machen himself disillusioned me, although the assertion is still partially true."e;