text:  The range of English poetry is so vast--it is profuse in so many beauties and excellences and many of its great names are approached with so much habitual veneration that I feel great diffidence and difficulty in addressing you on a subject on which my opinions can have little weight and my judgment is no authority; but to you whose minds have been stirred with the lofty thoughts of the Poets of England and are familiar with their beauties nothing is needed to stimulate you to admire that which I am sure has been the object of your continual admiration and the subject of your unfailing delight