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Philip Bourke Marston was a British poet and author. Philip was born in London, his father was John Westland Marston. Philip James Bailey and Dinah Maria Mulock were his godparents, and the very famous of the Mulock’s short verses, “Philip, my King,” is dedicated to him. He lost his sight when he was only 3 years old, because of the dispensation of belladonna as a prophylactic counter to scarlet fever, worsened, it was believed, by an accidental blow. His blindness was not for years so entirely as to stop him from seeing, he said, “the tree-boughs waving in the wind, the pageant of sunset in the west, and the glimmer of a fire upon the hearth;” and this darkness, defective perspicacity should have been more interesting to the fancy than a state of either sharp eyesight or complete loss of vision. He pandered, as Hartley Coleridge, in a successive series of fantasy adventures and in the daydreams identified up by melody, for which he revealed the traditional attachment of the sightless. The foreseeable effect was to enthuse the idyllic side of a prevailing mind into untimely and disproportionate commotion while disheartening replication and rational chastisement, to which he persisted an outsider all his life. His unusual skills of verbal expression and music were demonstrated in verses of noteworthy value of his time, and showcasing a command of demarcating the facets of nature which, his condition painstaking, gave the impression nearly unconceivable. These attempts seen total gratitude from the magnificent literary circle then congregated round his father, and he was seriously blissful for some time in the love of Mary Nesbit. The passing of his affianced from quick consumption, definitely exhausted him, and was the forerunner of a series of catastrophes which may well explain the morose division in his standpoints of life and nature.
Product ID: 9781776741601
Sku: X3-7734-RPOT
