Author: POPE-HENNESSY, JAMES.
Title: Monckton Milnes The Years of Promise 1809-1851.
Description: First Edition; 8vo; pp. xv, 327; colour frontispiece; dustjacket; flecking to top edge of pages; otherwise a very good copy. London, Constable, (1949). ' Richard Monckton Milnes ( who became Lord Houghton ) was one of the ubiquitous figures of mid-Victorian England..Monckton Milnes occupied a position in London which Mr. Pope-Hennessy rightly defines as unique. He was not a first-class poet, or an eminent or a successful politician, but "his literary perceptions and his warmth of heart, together with his innumerable good-humoured contacts in the world of power, made of him a sort of liaison figure between this world and that other struggling, vital, passionate and improvident universe of literary genius and literary talent."

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