1852 Fred W. Robertson: Two Lectures on the Influence of Poetry on the Working Classes

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or my Dante, Shakspere, Shelley, Words[7]worth, or Tennyson; and I know what it is to feel the jar of nerve gradually cease, and the darkness in which all life had robed itself to

Swami Vidyatmananda "The Making of a Devotee" Chapter 1

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evening. I admired Shelley, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson, but Millay was my ideal. The evening is clear in my memory. (I have the torn-off half of the admission ticket still.
Chapter 1 of the Autobiography of the late Swami Vidyatmananda (1913-2000), one of the first westerners to become a monk of the Ramakrishna-Order of Inda

1833 John Stuart Mill: The Two Kinds of Poetry

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poetry, Wordsworth and Shelley. Apter instances could not be wished for; the one might be cited as the type, the exemplar , of what the poetry of culture may accomplish, the other

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