“The nature of poetry is precisely the question that underlies the most…” — Sydney Dobell

“The nature of poetry is precisely the question that underlies the most difficult and serious questions that concern the human mind.”

Treating poetic theory as inseparable from fundamental questions of thought and feeling · Letter home, 1857

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Sydney Dobell

About Sydney Dobell

5 April 1824–22 August 1874

Sydney Thompson Dobell was born on 5 April 1824 at Cranbrook in Kent, into a family whose circumstances placed him close to the commercial and dissenting middle-class culture of provincial England rather than to the aristocratic literary world. His father, Thomas Dobell, was a wine merchant, and the business of…

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