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Four Victorian Poets

garden of poetry, the flowers, the paths, the waters, the buildings, are of an exquisiteness, a finish, a colour and beauty which are rare, specialised, and of a seclusive charm. We walk in it for a time with a lonely pleasure, and then we leave it for the open country and the free air and the boundless ocean of poetry.