ABSTRACT
Masson (1822–1907) edited Macmillan's Magazine from its inception in 1859 to 1867. He was a Professor at University College, London (succeeding Clough), and later at Edinburgh. He was the author, in a North British Review article entitled ‘Theories of Poetry and a New Poet’ (1853), of the view Arnold attacks in his 1853 Preface, that ‘a true allegory of the state of one's mind … is perhaps the highest thing that one can attempt in the way of fictitious art’ (which includes, for Masson, poetry).
