William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
Lectures on the English Poets http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16209/16209.txt (1818), Lecture III, "On Shakespeare and Milton"
“And Chaucer, with his infantine
Familiar clasp of things divine.”
A Vision of Poets (1844)
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Familiar clasp of things divine." by Elizabeth Barrett Browning?
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