They will be classed some day with wordsworth and all the rest of the best.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
True, two of our greatest of modern poets, wordsworth and Whitman, dealt hardly at all with romantic love, and other poets like Shelley and Swinburne have written besides love poetry, passionate defences of liberty and republicanism.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
wordsworth, however, did not claim, as Coleridge thought he did, that the language of verse poetry must be that of ignorant people.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell