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    Arthur Machen A Novelist of Ecstasy and Sin
    Arthur Machen A Novelist of Ecstasy and Sin
    Arthur Machen A Novelist of Ecstasy and Sin
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    Arthur Machen A Novelist of Ecstasy and Sin

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    Arthur Machen A Novelist of Ecstasy and Sin
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    Vincent Starrett

    Vincent Starrett (1886–1974) was a Chicago journalist who become one of the world’s foremost experts on Sherlock Holmes. A books columnist for the Chicago Tribune, he also wrote biographies of authors such as Robert Louis Stevenson and Ambrose Bierce. A founding member of the Baker Street Irregulars, Starrett is best known for writing The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1933), an imaginative biography of the famous sleuth.

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      Arthur Machen A Novelist of Ecstasy and Sin - Vincent Starrett

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      Title: Arthur Machen

      A Novelist of Ecstasy and Sin

      Author: Vincent Starrett

      Release Date: March 7, 2011 [eBook #35515]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ARTHUR MACHEN***

      E-text prepared by Marc D'Hooghe

      (http://www.freeliterature.org)

      from page images generously made available by

      Internet Archive

      (http://www.archive.org)

      ARTHUR MACHEN

      A NOVELIST OF ECSTASY AND SIN

      BY

      VINCENT STARRETT

      WITH TWO UNCOLLECTED POEMS BY

      ARTHUR MACHEN

      CHICAGO

      WALTER M. HILL

      1918

      NOTE

      With singular unanimity critics for thirty years have slighted the work of Arthur Machen. A line suffices for him in Holbrook Jackson's The Eighteen Nineties, and Mr. Blaikie-Murdoch ignores him completely in The Renaissance of the Nineties; 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, The Influence of Baudelaire, but even that is made up largely of quotations from The Hill of Dreams, 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.

      Because, in my opinion, Arthur Machen is the outstanding artist of his time, and one of the great masters of all time, I wrote the following paper, which first appeared in Reedy's Mirror for October 5, 1917. That issue is not now obtainable, and, as calls for it continue to come to me and to the publisher, I find ground for a belief that Machen may, at length, be coming into his own, a tardy phenomenon which I am happy to hasten so far as it lies within my power. Mr. Walter M. Hill shares this feeling and this brochure is the result.

      I am indebted to Mr. William Marion Reedy for permission to reprint those parts of the article which appeared in his journal.

      V.S.

      ARTHUR MACHEN

      Some thirty odd years ago a young man of twenty-two, the son of a Welsh clergyman, fresh from school and with his head full of a curiously occult mediaevalism, privately acquired from yellowed palimpsests and

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