“We have arrived therefore at this law of all metaphor—that every true…” — Sydney Dobell

“We have arrived therefore at this law of all metaphor—that every true metaphor is not only a metaphor of the thing for which it stands but of the Poet who placed it.”

Arguing that metaphor reveals both its subject and its maker · 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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