But your imagination is unpractised, and asks to be fed with a spoon.

We English are more imaginative than most nations." "Then, why is it not manifested ?" "We are still fighting against the Puritan element, in literature as elsewhere." "Your old bugbear, Mr.Barrett!" "And more than this: our language is not rich in subtleties for prose.

A writer who is not servile and has insight, must coin from his own mint.
In poetry we are rich enough; but in prose also we owe everything to the licence our poets have taken in the teeth of critics.

Shall I give you examples?
It is not necessary.

Our simplest prose style is nearer to poetry with us, for this reason, that the poets have made it.