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Updated: May 17, 2025

I remember a line in Thomson's "Castle of Indolence" which owes much of its fascination to three m's, where he speaks of the Hebrid Isles Far placed amid the melancholy main. I remember a passage in Prichard's "Races of Man" which had for me all the moving quality of a poem. It was something about the Arctic regions, and I could never read it without the same thrill. Dr.

James Russell Lowell - The Function of the Poet and Other Essays