Thomas Gordon Hake
Thomas Gordon Hake (10 March 1809 – 11 January 1895) was an English poet.
Life
He was born at Leeds, of an old Devon family. His mother was a Gordon of the Huntly branch. He studied medicine at St George's Hospital and at Edinburgh and Glasgow, but gave up practice to write.
In 1839, he published a prose epic Vales, republished in Ainsworth's Magazine as Valdarno, which attracted the attention of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Rossetti, against his habit, reviewe Hake's poems in The Academy and the Fortnightly Review. Hake became a member of the circle round Rossetti,
Hake was given a Civil List literary pension in 1893.
Works
In 1871, Hake published Madeline; in 1872, Parables and Tales; in 1880 "Maiden Ecstasy" (poems), in 1883, The Serpent Play; in 1890, New Day Sonnets; and, in 1892, his Memoirs of Eighty Years.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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