...estimate of my life,"— and, from what I have already said, you will see that I have none to give. I have been too deeply conscious of the mutability...things present, in an earnest desire for the future. I am profoundly excited by music, and by some poems— those of Tennyson especially— whom, with Keats,...

...melancholy that he has in mind is clearly enough not that of Greek tragedy, with its awful sense of 1 ' My life has been whim — impulse — passion —...things present in an earnest desire for the future.' (From Poe's 'spiritual autobiography,' Woodberry, Life, n, 93.) moral powers related with but transcending...