Hazlitt on the Romantics
Coleridge:
“He is the only person from whom I ever learnt anything in conversation. He was the only person I ever knew, who answered to my idea of a man of genius.”
Shelley:
“He is clogged by no dull system of realities, no earth-bound feelings, no rooted prejudices, by nothing that belongs to the mighty trunk and hard husk of nature and habit…”
Keats:“He displayed extreme tenderness, beauty, originality and delicacy of fancy; all he wanted was manly strenth and fortitude to reject the temptations of singularity in sentiment and expression. Some of his shorter and later pieces are as free from faults as they are full of beauties.”
BYSSHE
"The fascination with fire-arms was one of many elements in Shelley's character which Hogg, a very down-to-earth personality despite all his masterly sarcasms, could never really account for. Another was Shelley's almost maniac disregard, on certain occasions, for the commonplace decencies of public normal public behaviour, as the time when he seized a baby out of its mother's arms while crossing Magdalen Bridge and began earnestly to question it about the nature of its Platonic pre-existence so that he might prove a point in an argument he was having with Hogg concerning metempsychosis."
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