ecstatician

Updated: August 1, 2026

Meanwhile, questions of this sort have begun to absorb us to such a degree that we are apt to forget that Swinburne after all was a man of genius a man with an entrancing gift of melody spiritually an echo, perhaps, but aesthetically a discoverer, a new creature, the most amazing ecstatician of our time. Swinburne, says Mr. Gosse, "was not quite like a human being."

Robert Lynd - Old and New Masters