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

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

A beautiful and ineffectual angel [Shelley], beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.

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

The poet:who is the legislator of generations and the moral instructor of the world.

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ Attempt translation.

I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; ra…