wiffen

Updated: May 14, 2025

Milton took it on trust from him; and so have our English translators Hoole and Wiffen. The Abbé de Charnes, however, declined to do so; and Montaigne, who saw the poet in St. Anne's hospital, says nothing of the love at all. He attributes his condition to poetical excitement, hard study, and the meeting of the extremes of wisdom and folly.

Leigh Hunt - Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2