1855—I have looked over Gerald Massey's Poems
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1855— I have looked over
Gerald Massey's Poems.—London.—They seem
to me zealous, candid, warlike,
—intended, as they surely are, to get up
a strong feeling against the British
aristocracy both in their social
and governmental political capacity.—
Massey, I hear, is a youngish
man, a radical, an editor now
I believe in one of the provincial
towns.—His early life laborious,
a workman in a factory I think.—
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1855— I have looked over
Gerald Massey's Poems.—London.—They seem
to me zealous, candid, warlike,
—intended, as they 