Sir William Rowan Hamilton wrote to Mr. Aubrey de Vere in 1835 that Dora Wordsworth told him that her father "was sometimes at a loss whether to refer her to the 'Poems of the Imagination,' or the 'Poems of the Fancy,' for some particular passage."

[Illustration: The sa-cred I-bis, we are told, The E-gyp-tians much re-vered of old] [Illustration: The I-gua-na's flesh is sweet and good; It haunts the riv-er and the wood.]

But he is the strongest seer who can support the stress of creative energy and yet keep that sanity of expectation which consists in distinguishing, as Dante does, between the cose che son vere outside the individual mind, and the non falsi errori which are the revelations of true imaginative power.