For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: but though this be true, Poems to which any value can be attached, were never produced on any variety of subjects but by a man, who being possessed of more than usual organic sensibility, had also thought long and deeply. If in this opinion I am mistaken, I can have little right to the name of a Poet. I believe that my habits of meditation have so formed my feelings, as that my descriptions of such objects as strongly excite those feelings, will be found to carry along with them a purpose. The first time he used the expression, he wrote: Indeed, he uses the phrase ‘spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’ twice in the preface, and that was the second time. But what was his meaning here? Well, that isn’t all he wrote.
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