The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.

The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience.

Coleridge, poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.

Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.

Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath Preluded those melodious bursts that fill The spacious times of great Elizabeth With sounds that echo still.

Image:that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.

The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and conspicuous faction of bards, g…