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He used his poetic touchstones--Dante, the Metaphysicals, the Caroline poets and Baudelaire--to attack Shelley's vague imagery, rhetorical abstraction and muddled thought.
Morgan read eclectically, nurturing early enthusiasms for canonical English writers, from the Gawain poet to Milton and the metaphysicals, and developing a passion for the 1936 edition of the Faber Book of Modern Verse that would cast a long shadow over his work for years to come.
All this Stubbs ignores, as he ignores the strengths and weaknesses of Samuel Johnson's remarks on the Metaphysicals in his essay on Cowley, and the brilliant marginalia of Coleridge (also ignored by Eliot, though not by Carey).
 
 
 
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