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The Flower of the Mind

by Alice Meynell

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The Invitation — Page 303

No need to point to a poem that so shines as does this lucent verse.

La Belle Dame Bans Merci — Page 316

Keats is here the magical poet, as he is the intellectual poet in the great sonnet following; and it is his possession or promise of both imaginations that proves him greater than Coleridge. In his day they seem to have found Coleridge to be a thinker in his poetry. To me he seems to have had nothing but senses, magic, and simplicity, and these he had to the utmost yet known to man. Keats was to have been a great intellectual poet, besides all that in fact he was.

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