[94] Rossetti, Poems, p. 277.
‘The springing green, the violet’s scent,
The trill of lark, the blackbird’s note,
Sunshowers soft, and balmy breeze:
If I sing such words as these,
Needs there any grander thing
To praise thee with, O day of spring?’
[96] Rod, op. cit., p. 67.
[97] Poems, p. 16.
[98] Sollier, Psychologie de l’Idiot et de l’Imbécile, p. 184. See also Lombroso, The Man of Genius (Contemporary Science Series), London, 1891, p. 216. A special characteristic found in literary mattoids, and also, as we have already seen, in the insane, is that of repeating some words or phrases hundreds of times in the same page. Thus, in one of Passanante’s chapters the word riprovate (blame) occurs about 143 times.
[99] Poems, p. 31.
[100] Poems, p. 247.
[101] Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poems and Ballads. London: Chatto and Windus, 1889, p. 247.