Ibid.

No one can understand Shakespeare’s superiority fully until he has ascertained, by comparison, all that which he possessed in common with several other great dramatists of his age, and has then calculated the surplus which is entirely Shakespeare’s own.

S. T. Coleridge (1772-1834). Table Talk, 12 May 1830.

His was the wizard spell,

The spirit to enchain:

His grasp o’er nature fell,

Creation own’d his reign.

“Poetical Portraits” by A Modern Pythagorean in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, vol. xxvii. 1830, p. 632.