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The Bird in the Garden

Richard Barham Middleton

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The Bird in the Garden is a short story by Richard Middleton and first appeared in the collection The Ghost Ship and Other Stories .

Middleton himself was a tragic figure, a young man impatient for success, who managed to live the archetypal life of the Romantic Bohemian poet, complete with poverty, unrequited love for an impossible woman , despair, and an early suicide. While he published many pieces in the best magazines of the day, no volumes of his work were published in his lifetime. Upon his death, four volumes of his collected works were in print within eighteen months. Three more followed in the next two decades. As a poet, he was acclaimed in the press as a new Keats, both for the brilliance of his work and the brevity of his life. He is remembered today for a handful of superbly crafted, eerie fantasies, such as The Ghost Ship, The Coffin Merchant, On the Brighton Road, and The Conjurer, which only hint at the richness of the larger body of his work, and suggest what kind of a literary artist he would have become if he had lived.

Language: English

Pages: 5

The Bird in the Garden

Richard Barham Middleton

3/5 ( ratings)

The Bird in the Garden is a short story by Richard Middleton and first appeared in the collection The Ghost Ship and Other Stories .

Middleton himself was a tragic figure, a young man impatient for success, who managed to live the archetypal life of the Romantic Bohemian poet, complete with poverty, unrequited love for an impossible woman , despair, and an early suicide. While he published many pieces in the best magazines of the day, no volumes of his work were published in his lifetime. Upon his death, four volumes of his collected works were in print within eighteen months. Three more followed in the next two decades. As a poet, he was acclaimed in the press as a new Keats, both for the brilliance of his work and the brevity of his life. He is remembered today for a handful of superbly crafted, eerie fantasies, such as The Ghost Ship, The Coffin Merchant, On the Brighton Road, and The Conjurer, which only hint at the richness of the larger body of his work, and suggest what kind of a literary artist he would have become if he had lived.

Language: English

Pages: 5

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