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To deny the possession of poetry in its very highest sense to the author of those dashing poems, because it is possible to discover in them some feeble rhymes, or even ungrammatical expressions, is worthy of the sages who should deny military genius to the Duke of Wellington because his fighting soldiers in the Peninsula were not so trimly dressed as certain show regiments at home. The same power and the same immense imaginative fertility are to be found in his professed poems as in his prose works. You are quite welcome to say he is not a sparkling poet like Moore, nor a correct poet like Campbell, nor a philosophic poet like Wordsworth; but take him in his vigour, in his characters, in his incidents, and descriptions—he is worth them all. There is courage to be gained in the manliness of his style; and no man who ever wrote, whether in prose or verse, whether describing the lighted hall of chivalrous nobles, or the simple habits of ordinary life, or the ways and feelings of the lower ranks, no man ever left |