Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
Why? He was easily the best of the Romantic poets - despite the snobbish sneering of his more socially elevated contemporaries like Byron (a doggerel-peddling prick) and Shelley (good in parts).

The 'Cockney Poet' was their superior by miles. And they knew it. Arseholes.
He was a dull wánker. Fúck him and all his shít poems.