Richard Porson on Southey’s Thalaba: One of those poems “which will be read when Homer and Virgil are forgotten, but not till then.”
Commonplace Book, 1934-2012 (Pressed Wafer, 2015) by Daniel Aaron.
taste making
[Every] author, as far as he is great and at the same time original, has had the task of creating the taste by which he is to be enjoyed.
—William Wordsworth, "Essay Supplemental to the Preface" (1815)
Quoted in J. D. McClatchy's Sweet Theft: a poet's commonplace book (Counterpoint Press, 2016)
—William Wordsworth, "Essay Supplemental to the Preface" (1815)
Quoted in J. D. McClatchy's Sweet Theft: a poet's commonplace book (Counterpoint Press, 2016)
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