text:  In many respects it is true there was a strange and surprising analogy between the personal character the peculiar tone of thought nay even the nature of the subjects treated by the two poets: and to those who content themselves with a superficial examination of the question--those "who have not attayned " as Sir Thomas Browne quaintly phrases it "to the deuteroscophie or second sight of thinges"--these analogies may appear conclusive; but we trust to be able to show that between these two great men there exists a difference wide and marked enough to satisfy the most critical stickler for originality