Overview
A shipping tycoon’s adventurous life is threatened when a lover haunts him in his dreams. This work of historical fiction is written in page-turning verse. Its American precursors are Longfellow and E.A. Robinson, and the Irish dramas of W. B. Yeats. Although the zest for jarring, brutal action scenes periodically shocks us, although the San Francisco painted is weirdly fascinating, it is the urgency of the lovers themselves that compels us to read on. Original.