ABSTRACT
Walter Bagehot (1826–77), economist, political theorist, and critic. Extract from ‘Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning; or Pure, Ornate, and Grotesque Art in English Poetry’, National Review, November 1864. Reprinted in Literary Studies, ed. R. H. Hutton, 1879. Quoted here from that edn., II, 338–41.
