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Collected Works (Vol. II)

…the lost works turn up, of course it may be that there may be found ‘‘ shelter for songs that recede.”’ Still, even here, one is, on the whole, more attracted than repelled; the author has enormous power, and he never scruples to use it, to drive us half mad with horror, or, as in his earlier most exquisite works, to move us to the noblest thoughts and deeds. ‘True, his debt to contemporary writers is a little obvious here and there; but these are small blemishes on a series of poems whose originality is always striking, and often dread- ful, i…