Framework of Evaluation – Historical and Personal as Fallacious -- “Our personal affinities, likings and circumstances, have great power to sway our estimate of this or that poet’...
Religion replaced by Poetry - “Without poetry, our science will appear incomplete; and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry
“The Future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. There is not a ...