364 pp, black end papers, air bubbles in cloth, boards lightly flecked, lacks 1 prelim., else good copy in blue, cloth boards. vol 1 only of 2


in 1889, he collected the best of the contents of these volumes, with additions, into a two-volume edition of his poems called My Lyrical Life.


In Havelock's March the heroes of the Indian Mutiny found a laureate as spirited and eloquent as Tennyson, whose Defence of Lucknow, which appeared many years afterwards, was certainly modelled on Mr. Massey's poem.


Of the Russian War he was the veritable Tyrtaeus. It is impossible even now to read such a poem as New Year's Eve in Exile, and such ballads as England Goes to War [Ed. — Battle?], After Alma, Before Inkermann [Ed. — Inkermann?], Cathcart's Hill, A War Winter's Night in England,



His engagement with history in the making brought forth War Waits (1855), a volume of poetry fired by the Crimean War. Sentimental rather than sensitive, this volume met a need for a national myth--as evidenced by the popular success of the work, which went through two editions within the year