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 no ordinary young poet, it may be pronounced as superior to those celebrated productions in a dramatic point of view, as it is inferior in richness of imagination. It possesses what no other pastoral drama but one can boast, true dramatic skill, and an absolute flesh-and-blood interest. The Lady in Comus is beset by foes too symbolical, and is too safe and contented in her own virtue,