E. H. Visiak

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Edward Harold Physick (July 20, 1878 - 30 August 1972) was an English writer, known chiefly as a critic and authority on John Milton; also a poet and fantasy writer. He used the pseudonym E. H. Visiak from 1910.

He was born in Ealing, London on July 20 1878; his father E.J. Physick was a sculptor. He went to Hitchin Grammar school, and became a clerical worker. During World War I he was a conscientious objector. After a short time teaching he became an independent scholar, living very quietly. During the 1930s he collaborated on some short stories, with John Gawsworth in particular.

A friend and enthusiast of the Scottish novelist David Lindsay, Visiak wrote three short macabre novels, The Haunted Island, Medusa and The Shadow, and the autobiography Life's Morning Hour.

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[edit] Works

[edit] Poetry

  • Buccaneer Ballads (1910)
  • Flints and Flashes (1911)
  • The Phantom Ship (1912)
  • The Battle Fiends (1916)

[edit] Novels

  • The Haunted Island (1910)
  • Medusa: A Story of Mystery (1929)
  • The Shadow (1936)

[edit] Literary Criticism

  • Milton Agonistes: a metaphysical criticism (1923)
  • Mirror of Conrad (1956)
  • Portent of Milton: Some Aspects of His Genius (1968)
  • The Strange Genius of David Lindsay (1970; with J. B. Pick and Colin Wilson)

[edit] As Editor

  • The Mask of Comus (1937) editor
  • Milton's Lament for Damon and his other Latin poems (1935; with Walter W. Skeat)
  • Richards' Shilling Selections from Edwardian Poets (1936)
  • Milton: Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, with English Metrical Translations of the Latin, Greek and Italian Poems (1938)

[edit] Autobiography

  • Life's Morning Hour (1969)
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