text:  Undoubtedly a poet is the best judge not only of the kind but of the degree of the effect which he wishes to produce upon his reader; and there may be between the thoughts which he desires to embody and the peculiar harmonies in which he may determine to clothe those thoughts analogies and sympathies too delicate for our grosser ears; or at least if not too subtle and refined for our ears to perceive yet far too delicate for us to define or exactly to appreciate