... on the whole life of a man whom he had personally known for less than half that life. It is this point and this only which I should venture to criticise. Mr. Smalley says of Lowell: He came to London the man he had been all his life long . . a thinker, a dreamer, a poet, almost a recluse. But for the phrase all his life long this would be very true; yet he certainly was not born a recluse, no...