Note 13 — Chapter VI · Tennyson’s Influence—The Diction of Arnold, Rossetti, Morris and Swinburne

I have not in general much use for criticism that quotes other criticism, but at this time of day any one may steal from the stores of Professor Saintsbury’s learning and wisdom, and although there is no modern critic, perhaps, so provocative as he, there is none who has left his mark so indelibly upon every subsequent judgment of English poetry.