Excerpt from A Comparative Estimate of Modern English Poets Painting requires an educated eye, music a disciplined ear 3 but poetry, diving to the bottom of the heart, which each one carries about with him, represents its sorrows and its joys, its hopes and fears. The circle. Of judges may therefore be pro portionally enlarged, till it becomes commensurate with all who are in any way masters of the language in which the repre sentation is conveyed. Those who possess a knowledge of the poet's words, are like the holders of a galvanic wire down which the stream of his thoughts fiow, affecting each alike with the impression of his burning images, at least so far as the recipients of the poetic battery are possessed of a common organization. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.