thought-swarming

Updated: May 5, 2025

Nothing, indeed, could more strikingly illustrate the commanding advantage possessed by a poet interpreting a poet than is to be found in Coleridge's occasional sarcastic comments on the banalites of our national poet's most prosaic commentator, Warburton the "thought-swarming, but idealess Warburton," as he once felicitously styles him.

H. D. (Henry Duff) Traill - English Men of Letters: Coleridge