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THOMAS GORDON HAKE (1809-1895)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 828 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:GORDON See also:HAKE (1809-1895)  , See also:English poet, was See also:born at See also:Leeds, of an old See also:Devonshire See also:family, on the loth of See also:March 1809 . His See also:mother was a See also:Gordon of the See also:Huntly See also:branch . He studied See also:medicine at St See also:George's See also:hospital and at See also:Edinburgh and See also:Glasgow, but had given up practice for many years before his See also:death; and had devoted himself to a See also:literary See also:life . In 1839 he published a See also:prose epic Vates, republished in See also:Ainsworth's See also:magazine a.s Valdarno, which attracted the See also:attention of D . G . See also:Rossetti . In after years he became an intimate member of the circle of See also:friends and followers gathered See also:round Rossetti, who so far departed from his usual See also:custom as to See also:review See also:Hake's poems in the See also:Academy and in the Fortnightly Review . In 187r he published Madeline; 1872, Parables and Tales; 1883, The See also:Serpent See also:Play; 1890, New See also:Day Sonnets; and in 1892 his See also:Memoirs of Eighty Years . Dr Hake's See also:works had much subtlety and felicity of expression, and were warmly appreciated in a somewhat restricted literary circle . In his last published See also:verse, the sonnets, he shows an advance in facility on the occasional harshness of his earlier See also:work . He was given a See also:Civil See also:List literary See also:pension in 1893, and died on the 11th of See also:January 1895 .

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