his man?

190. *Perhaps the one person of genius in these English plays.

The spirit of deep prophecy she hath,
Exceeding the nine Sibyls of old Rome:
What's past and what's to come she can descry.

191. *Proposing in this paper to trace the leading sentiment in
Shakespeare's English Plays as a sort of popular dramatic chronicle, I
have left untouched the question how much (or, in the case of Henry the
Sixth and Henry the Eighth, how little) of them may be really his: how
far inferior hands have contributed to a result, true on the whole to
the greater, that is to say, the Shakespearian elements in them.

201. *Perhaps a double entendre:--of any ordinary grave, as comprising,
in effect, the whole small earth now left to its occupant or, of such a
tomb as Richard's in particular, with its actual model, or effigy, of
the clay of him. Both senses are so characteristic that it would be a
pity to lose either.

202. *The Sonnet: the Aubade: the Epithalamium.

DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI

[205] IT was characteristic of a poet who had ever something about him
of mystic isolation, and will still appeal perhaps, though with a name
it may seem now established in English literature, to a special and
limited audience, that some of his poems had won a kind of exquisite
fame before they were in the full sense published. The Blessed
Damozel, although actually printed twice before the year 1870, was
eagerly circulated in manuscript; and the volume which it now opens
came at last to satisfy a long-standing curiosity as to the poet, whose
pictures also had become an object of the same peculiar kind of
interest. For those poems were the work of a painter, understood to
belong to, and to be indeed the leader, of a new school then rising
into note; and the reader of to-day may observe already, in The Blessed
Damozel, written at the age of eighteen, a prefigurement of the chief
characteristics of that school, as he will recognise in it also, in
proportion as he really knows Rossetti, many of the characteristics
which are most markedly personal and his own. Common [206] to that
school and to him, and in both alike of primary significance, was the
quality of sincerity, already felt as one of the charms of that
earliest poem--a perfect sincerity, taking effect in the deliberate use
of the most direct and unconventional expression, for the conveyance of
a poetic sense which recognised no conventional standard of what poetry
was c