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 | | During his early years, Massey concentrated mainly on poets and literary personages, but later he lectured increasingly on mythology and the origin of religious beliefs, and on spiritualism, subjects that became absorbing interests and were — and continue — to damn him in the eyes of many. |
 | | Massey's earliest surviving published collection, Voices of Freedom and Lyrics of Love, followed in 1851, but it was not until his third collection, The Ballad of Babe Christabel with other Lyrical Poems, published in 1854, that he achieved a wide reputation as a poet. |
 | | Massey's collection War-Waits, poems based on the Crimean War, was published in 1855, Craigcrook Castle in 1856, Havelock’s March in 1861 and, in 1870, A Tale of Eternity, itself a poem (and his last significant effort in the genre) dealing with the supernatural, on which one critic commented that ".... |
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