Poetry
- Robert Browning - Dramatis Personae
- Alfred Tennyson - Enoch Arden
- Alfred de Vigny - Les Destinées (posthumously published)
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“The science of Humboldt is one thing, poetry is another thing. The poet to-day, notwithstanding all the discoveries of science, and the accumulated learning of mankind, enjoys no advantage over Homer.”
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