“Dryden's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1 November 1833
Table Talk (1821–1834)

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English poet, literary critic and philosopher 1772–1834

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