Imaged ’mid mortality.
P. B. Shelley (1792-1822). “Lines written among the Euganean Hills,” October 1818.
Shakespeare led a life of allegory: his works are the comments on it.
John Keats (1795-1821). Letter to George and Georgiana Keats, 18 Feb. 1819.
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830). Table Talk, 1821, vol. i. p. 177.
. . . Shakespeare, who in our hearts for himself hath erected an empire