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This is not work which can possibly be _popular_ in the wide sense; but it is work that will be read and treasured centuries hence by those who really care for poetry. And he wrote to Thompson,
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I assure you no conceivable reaction can wipe out or overlay such work as yours. It is firm-based on the rock of absolute beauty; and this I say all the more confidently because it does not happen to appeal to my own speculative, or even my own literary, prejudices. The most extravagant admirer of all, and the one who will probably turn out to have come nearer the mark than any of Francis Thompson's contemporaries, was Mr. J. L. Garvin, the well known English leader-writer in politics and literature.
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After the publication of his second volume, he wrote in the English _Bookman_, March 1897,