Frederic William Henry Myers

Frederic William Henry Myers , 1843-1901, English essayist and poet. His works include the poem St. Paul (1867) and Essays, Classical and Modern (1883). He is well known for his investigations of psychic phenomena in connection with the Society for Psychical Research, which he helped found in 1882, and for his Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death (1903).

Myers, F. W. H. ( Frederic William Henry Myers) (1843–1901), poet and inspector of schools, published several volumes of poetry and critical essays; his essay on G. Eliot, first published in the Century Magazine in 1881 (and reprinted in Essays Classical and Modern, 1883), describes the celebrated incident in which she spoke to him of ‘God, Immortality, Duty’, and declared ‘how inconceivable was the first, how unbelievable the second, and yet how peremptory and absolute the third’. Myers was a founder of the Society for Psychical Research; he was joint author (with E. Gurney and F. Podmore) of Phantasms of the Living (1886), a two-volume work dealing largely with telepathy.