Lyrical Poems

After his student days as a Pre-Raphaelite in Oxford, Canon Dixon became assistant master at Highgate School in London where he met the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. Through Hopkins, he formed close friendships with Robert Bridges and Mary E. Coleridge.

Daniel printed three works by Dixon between 1884 and 1887, including this collection of short lyrical poems. A reclusive poet, Dixon’s works are characterized by their melancholic religious tone blended with a sensitive aestheticism inspired by nature.