“There is no essential difference in the forms of Poetic expression, but…” — Sydney Dobell

“There is no essential difference in the forms of Poetic expression, but they may be conveniently divided, for our present purpose, into simple and compound.”

Distinguishing forms of poetic expression without separating their essential nature · Lecture, Nature of Poetry, 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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