[These notes were made in 1981. I read it in the 1888 edition, where there was no attribution to an author:]. Source - Robarts. Finished June 22/81. A mystery indeed. Largely poetic flights of fancy, much of it highly influenced by
The Ancient Mariner. About a number of people dying but not dying and losing their souls all over the pace. Ixora, who also is, allegorically, Love, is a Jewess, actually a closet Christian. The book doesn't seem to be anti-Semitic, but my understanding of the poem was so unclear, that I couldn't be sure. Certainly the thing is based on some highly unorthodox dogma. Frustratingly suggestive, some defect in either the author or me prevented me from getting anything out of it. Forgive me for supposing it was the author.
 - John Harrison)
