ABSTRACT
Shakespeare (touched on in my last) was one of those self-taught genius’s which nature rarely produces, or at most but once in an age. His poetry was inspiration indeed, and he was, as Pope observes, truly an original. He seems to have discerned mankind by intuition-to have seen through human nature at one glance-master of every passion. I cannot convey a juster idea of his amazing genius than is contained in the couplet of a modern poet.
