“God knows, it is as much as I can do to put meat and bread on my own table; & hourly some poor starving wretch comes to my door, to put in his claim for a part of it.”

Letter to Thomas Poole (23 March 1801)
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English poet, literary critic and philosopher 1772–1834

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