... bodily eye, and to have read little save his own poetry, he was in fact a systematic student in the field of travel and observation, for the ends of poetical composition. Accordingly, he writes to Archdeacon Wrangham , perhaps in 181I: You inquire about old books; you might almost as well have asked for my teeth as for any of mine. The only modem books that I read are those of travels, or such as relate to matte...