Gawsworth vividly charts the story of ‘the flower-tunicked priest of nightmare’, from Machen’s idyllic childhood amid the beauties of Monmouthshire, through the lonely, poverty-stricken years in London that later inspired those lyrical masterpieces The Hill of Dreams and Far Off Things. This new paperback reprint is designed to reach a wider audience. However, it remained unpublished until 2005, when it was made available to the Friends of Arthur Machen as a limited edition hardback. Gawsworth industriously recorded details of his mentor’s life and work, composing a major biography that contained a wealth of previously unknown detail. In the 1930s Arthur Machen was approaching the end of a long literary career when the poet John Gawsworth cast himself as Machen’s Boswell. Edited by Roger Dobson, with an Introduction by Barry Humphries.
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