The quotations, also, are printed with the most culpable neglect of correctness: there are lines turned into nonsense.
Too much of this.

Farewell! Believe me affectionately yours, W.WORDSWORTH.[78] [77] See his 'Letter to a Friend of Burns.' [78] _Memoirs_, ii.

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Of Poems in Stanzas_.
LETTER TO ROBERT SOUTHEY.
DEAR SOUTHEY, * * * * * My opinion in respect to _epic poetry_ is much the same as the critic whom Lucien Buonaparte has quoted in his preface.

_Epic_ poetry, of the highest class, requires in the first place an action eminently influential, an action with a grand or sublime train of consequences; it next requires the intervention and guidance of beings superior to man, what the critics I believe call _machinery_; and, lastly, I think with Dennis, that no subject but a religious one can answer the demand of the soul in the highest class of this species of poetry.