“It is a poor ambition to be anxious after the distinction of a day in that which, if it be fit to live at all, is to live for ages.”

Valuing lasting artistic merit over fleeting contemporary fame · Preface to The Buccaneer and Other Poems (1827)

• Authorship
• Fame
• Legacy

“There was certainly some mistake about the time of my birth—I'm an impersonated Anachronism.”

Voicing a sense of belonging to an earlier, more ordered age amid rapid modern change · Letter to a friend

• Identity
• Modernity
• Time