Frederic William Henry Myers was a British poet, literary critic, essayist, social observer, mystic, philosopher, and scientific researcher into the human mind and soul. While he modestly characterizes himself in Fragments of Inner Life: An Autobiographical Sketch (1961) as "a fusion of a minor poet and an amateur savant," Myers is also a significant British reform writer. As a literary critic and a biographer of William Wordsworth, he wrote a balanced reassessment of the poet, whom he designated as an "epoch-maker" in literary history. Myers also pointed out the literary merits of writings by the poet's sister, Dorothy, and he worked to reform women's limited cultural roles in Britain by writing essays supporting higher education for women, praising women writers such as Dorothy Wordsworth and George Eliot, and celebrating enlightened literary depictions of women. Myers also pursued a quite radical reform in attempting to fuse scientific with religious inquiry...