Edward Harold Physick (July 20 1878 - 30 August 1972) was an English writer, known chiefly as a critic and authority on John Milton; also a poet and fantasy writer. He used the pseudonym E. H. Visiak from 1910.

He was born in Ealing, London on July 20 1878; his father E.J. Physick was a sculptor. He went to Hitchin Grammar school, and became a clerical worker. During World War I he was a conscientious objector. After a short time teaching he became an independent scholar, living very quietly. During the 1930s he collaborated on some short stories, with John Gawsworth in particular.

Works

• Buccaneer Ballads (1910) poetry
• The Haunted Island (1910) novel
• Flints and Flashes (1911) poetry
• The Phantom Ship (1912) poetry
• The Battle Fiends (1916) poetry
• Milton Agonistes: a metaphysical criticism (1923)
• Medusa: A Story of Mystery (1929) novel
• Milton's Lament for Damon and his other Latin poems (1935) with Walter W. Skeat
• In Richards' Shilling Selections from Edwardian Poets (1936)
• The Shadow (1936) novel
• The Mask of Comus (1937) editor
• Milton: Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, with English Metrical Translations of the Latin, Greek and Italian Poems (1938)
• Mirror of Conrad (1956) criticism
• Life's Morning Hour (1969) autobiography
• Portent of Milton: Some Aspects of His Genius (1968) criticism
• The Strange Genius of David Lindsay (1970) with J. B. Pick and Colin Wilson