written in a lively and interesting style, are especially valuable for their wealth of illustration and references to lesser-known classical authors. Poetry Henry was also the author of five collections of verse plus two long narrative poems describing his travels, and various pamphlets of a satirical nature. At its best his poetry has something of the flavour of Robert Browning and Arthur Hugh Clough while at its worst it resembles the doggerel of William McGonagall. His five volumes of verse were all published at his own expense and received no critical attention either during or after his lifetime. Rediscovery Henry was rediscovered by Christopher Ricks who included eight of his poems in the New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (1987). Then there was silence for ten years until the Penguin Book of Victorian Verse included four of his poems. Valentine Cunningham included five of Henry's poems in The Victorians: an Anthology of Poetry and Poetics, published by Blackwell in 2000. In the 21st century, Henry was featured (with "Old Man," a poem from 1856) as one of the 90 poets included in My Own Land's Sins: An Anthology of Victorian Poetry, published by the Canadian-based publisher Universitas Press. Posthumous publication In 2002 Christopher Ricks edited with an introduction the Selected Poems of James Henry, published by The Lilliput Press (reviewed in The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement and The Sunday Telegraph). References Irish male poets 19th-century Irish medical doctors 1798 births 1876 deaths Writers from Dublin (city) 19th-century poets Irish Latinists Medical doctors from Dublin (city)