English Poets

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    There being in the make of an English mind a certain gloom and eagerness, which carries to the sad extreme; religion to fanaticism; free-thinking to atheism; liberty to rebellion.
    George Berkeley (1685–1753)

    When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)