In 1865 he remarried, his second wife being Marianne Byles, daughter of James Byles of Bowden Hall, Gloucester, and a woman of considerable fortune as well as beauty; a year later he purchased Buxted Hall in Surrey, the history of which he wrote in "How I managed my Estate" (1886). In 1877 he published "The Unknown Eros", which contains his finest poetic work, and in the following year "Amelia", his own favourite among his poems, together with an interesting essay on "English Metrical Law", appeared. This departure into criticism continued in 1879 with a volume of papers entitled "Principle in Art", and again in 1893 with "Religio Poetae".