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 from their quality; each in itself is clearly seen and clearly recorded, with all the freshness of a personal impression:

—these are no chosen passages, but such as were found on opening a Shelley at random. Or again, Blake, the most visionary of all poets, was ever the most precise in his visions—as precise as the Book of Revelations. What is distincter in its lurid light and darkness than

The same can be said of Coleridge's strange imaginings in The Ancient Mariner, of Christabel, even of Khubla Khan. Upon the basis of the invisible impossible, he builds up the